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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

    TruView

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANETSCOUT TruView is a unified network monitoring and APM tool. TruView is deployed as hardware on-premises, and it can automate capacity planning and environment discovery and configuration.N/A
    Pricing
    FoglightTruView
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FoglightTruView
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    FoglightTruView
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Foglight and NETSCOUT TruView
    Feature
    Foglight
    -
    Ratings
    NETSCOUT TruView
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    FoglightTruView
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    Auvik
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    Score5.6 out of 10
    PingPlotter
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    Score8 out of 10
    Nmap
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FoglightTruView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FoglightTruView
    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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    NETSCOUT
    Netscout’s TruView monitoring system gives your IT department the perfect view of your network landscape. With the pulse hardware app, you can perform VoIP or HTTP network monitoring tests from specific remote locations and it will populate the analysis results into your console. This will give you perspective on how your sites are performing and detect any out of Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance even before users report it.
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    Pros
    Quest Software
    • Database monitoring
    • Database management suite
    • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
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    NETSCOUT
    • The app monitoring gives you the details to set different filters and do a quick identification of the root cause of the problem.
    • Remarkable ability to store details of performance to analyze baselining, run advance troubleshooting, error detection and catalog by trends.
    • The ability to sync with a device/interface whether is physical or virtual gives me the standpoint to set analysis upon network traffic across LAN or WAN and also get the insight of Cloud segments, setting the triggers to find out where the behavior changes to non-production traffic.
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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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    NETSCOUT
    • Product features are sometimes overwhelming if the IT team is not used to this technology. For a small and mid-size company, the number of settings and work that is needed to implement the solution could be a long and exhausting process.
    • A "lite" version of Visual TruView could help a lot to small sized environments looking to develop the solution.
    • I would like to add some mitigation tools for simple/common problems that could be easily managed by a monitoring tool like Netscout TruView.
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    Support Rating
    Quest Software
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    NETSCOUT
    As mentioned before, our deployment success depended on their expertise. Recommendations and overall response from their support engineers was out of this world. We, as supporters ourselves, are very critical in regards to the response times and knowledge of support services representatives. Often they just want to resolve your ticket not caring about the result, or focus only on the performance review we could give them. That's a standard behavior in most overseas support centers. The TruView engineers and management cared about us, our needs, and how they delivered the help we needed.
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    Quest Software
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    NETSCOUT
    Visual TruView is a solid competitor with solutions such as SolarWinds NPM, Nagios, PRTG, or SolarWinds NTA. Why we chose TruView was because it goes straight to what we were looking for, no hidden modules or subscriptions to secondaries licensing terms, to get the results that we were expecting. TruView takes it to another level.
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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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    NETSCOUT
    • Tool consolidation, an amazing GUI that shows the most from the very beginning helping the IT Teams to set their own dashboards according to their needs.
    • When they meant one price tag, that's it! You won't get a headache after the purchase process is done.
    • Better be ready to set the scales your organization requires because if you miss something in the design you could get an application size that overrides your initial budget.
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