Likelihood to Recommend 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.) Read full review This product is highly recommended, first because it has a trial version that lasts 30 days, which is a good time to demonstrate the functionalities of this product to customers, in my case it has been very useful when we have a latency problem in the storage and we don't know the cause, I let the application run for a week and I have reports of all the storage components
Read full review Pros Database monitoring Database management suite Customization (both monitors and dashboards) Read full review IBM Storage Insights has an excellent interaction with other IBM applications IBM Storage Insights Cloud storage is very secure IBM Storage Insights allows for the transfer of data between different data storage systems Read full review Cons There are not many problems with this product Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies Read full review Android devices still requires IBM Storage Insights for outstanding functionality. Further, IBM Storage Insights has a complex interface, that requires adequate orientation. Besides, IBM Storage Insights is known to offer full service in terms of storage and other evaluating measures. Read full review Alternatives Considered Read full review IBM Storage Insights is competent in the amount of database the software can hold, with advanced external space, that makes companies balance the operations and control the analytics. Besides, IBM Storage Insights gauge the working capacity of software, by deploying accurate system controls and [validating] the security protocols. Finally, IBM Storage Insights has set terms that are perfect, reasonable, and committed to [helping].
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review IBM Storage Insights generates opinions or results from the analytical powers. IBM Storage Insights makes sharing the norm in a company, which lowers expense. IBM Storage Insights makes companies hold large database without compromise. Read full review ScreenShots IBM Storage Insights Screenshots