dbWatch vs. Foglight

dbWatch

5 Reviews and Ratings

Foglight

21 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
dbWatch	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	According to the vendor, dbWatch is a complete and scalable database monitoring solution, helping enterprises monitor and manage any number of SQLServer and Oracle database servers efficiently. dbWatch also supports Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase. The vendor promises that dbWatch will give companies total control over all aspects of operation, performance, analytics and resource usage. Additionally, the vendor claims that dbWatch will have the total overview companies need in order to…	$350 5-9 instances
Foglight	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Foglight is a database performance management suite from Quest, with modules to perform cloud analytics, network performance monitoring and virtualization management, scaling to a broad, cloud / virtualization focused IT infrastructure monitoring solution.	N/A

Pricing

dbWatch

Foglight

Editions & Modules

MariaDB/Sybase: $350
5-9 instances
MS-SQL/PostgreSQL: $425
5-9 instances
MS-SQL Server/Oracle: $600
5-9 instances

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
dbWatch	Foglight
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	dbWatch	Foglight
Top Pros	Pro Ssl certification Pro Sql server Pro Ease of use	Pro Nice reporting Pro Database management Pro Use case
Top Cons	Minus Virtual servers Minus Testing new Minus Mobile application	Minus Linux distributions Minus Network issues Minus Difficult to navigate

Best Alternatives
	dbWatch	Foglight
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	dbWatch	Foglight
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbWatch	Foglight
Likelihood to Recommend	dbWatch It's very fabulous with the support of Oracle and MySQL servers. Excellent with getting real-time health reports. Magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Intuitive and intuitive UI. Incentivized madhuri tiwari System Administrator Read full review	Quest Software Strengths [Foglight] Monitoring, Alerting and Management of on-prem virtualization and physical servers Historical trending and baselining are excellent and being able to compare a problem period against the same sets of data for a period when there was no issue is especially helpful as part of troubleshooting. Ease of use for end users is appreciated Weaknesses [of Foglight] Creation and management of custom monitors is a developer level activity requiring Groovy skillset Less useful for management of an environment where there is a large amount of custom implementations Commitment to longevity of cartridges/packs for specific subsystems Ability to create custom schedules/alerts/escalations is only available via a 3rd party product (from a former Quest developer) and is not particularly easy to manage/manipulate Lack of API accessibility for external integrations to other analytics (splunk, etc.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	dbWatch It's a magnificent with getting health reports on our database. Excellent with monitoring our MS SQL server. Terrific with monitoring our database. Intuitive user dashboard. Incentivized madhuri tiwari System Administrator Read full review	Quest Software Database monitoring Database management suite Customization (both monitors and dashboards) Incentivized Aletha Diaz Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Read full review
Cons	dbWatch It requires skilled personnel to configure. Efficient with database recovery and backup. Terrific with workflow management Incentivized usamah momin Software Developer Read full review	Quest Software There are not many problems with this product Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies Incentivized Jaime L. Regan Associate Attorney Read full review
Alternatives Considered	dbWatch Super amazing for data visualization. Magnifying with monitoring database 24/7 which is automatic. Great with developing mobile applications. Incentivized Simon Andrew Web Developer Read full review	Quest Software Incentivized Anderson Costa Middleware Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	dbWatch No answers on this topic	Quest Software Foglight has a positive impact on my company by being a complete monitoring platform that specializes in risk assessment, user diagnosis and management, and server monitoring ensuring a secure business infrastructure through predictive analytics, query analysis, anomaly detection, behavior tracking, troubleshooting, automated discovery, and more. Incentivized JW Juana Wilson Human Resources Assistant Read full review
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