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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Foglight

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AFoglight 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

    Helm

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHelm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.N/A
    Pricing
    FoglightHelm
    Editions & Modules
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    FoglightHelm
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    FoglightHelm
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    User Ratings
    FoglightHelm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FoglightHelm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.)
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    Open Source
    If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.
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    Pros
    Quest Software
    • Database monitoring
    • Database management suite
    • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
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    Open Source
    • Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
    • Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
    • Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.
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    Cons
    Quest Software
    • There are not many problems with this product
    • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
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    Open Source
    • concurrent deployments
    • templating values files
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    Support Rating
    Quest Software
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Quest Software
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    Open Source
    We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Open Source
    • Reduction in human effort.
    • Streamline software versions and upgrades.
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