Foglight vs Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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OpenShift is well suited if you want to use docker and [Kubernetes] but you want to hide the complexity of these two technologies. It gives a developer much more freedom in terms of code deployment, builds process, and implementation. One of its strengths is scaling and you can easily configure it for each application.

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Lavish Garg

Cyber Security and Blockchain Blogger

WitQuakeE-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Foglight NMS is very light on resources given the amount of monitoring connectivity options it provides. It is one of the few that I've trialed in the past that offers SNMP v3 connections.
The dashboard is concise with the main areas of interest. It can be customized as well if you have a particular use case.
Setting up alerts is straightforward with the ability to set custom thresholds. Alert emails get sent by configuring a primary mail server with the option to add a backup mail server in the event of a primary mail server outage or connectivity issues.

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Roger Mialkowski

Sole Proprietor

Zombie ComputersInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Implementing and integration platform to move infrastructure from on-premise hardware to the cloud[.]
Establishes a robust network and an updated infrastructure to develop intelligent and integrated services[.]
Makes internal development easier and faster and improves data access to developers[.]

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Stuart Anderson

Head of Innovation & IT Infrastructure

NanoString Technologies, Inc.Biotechnology, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

GUI interface is difficult to navigate
No APM capabilities. They left this space about a year ago
We have had issues with the GUI response times. On a regular basis, the interface can take several minutes to refresh

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Aletha Diaz

Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer

EsriComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Better API integration with a wider eco system
CLI, UI and API could be better in terms of usability
More security feature for east and west traffic, proxy and load balancing

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 7.0

Based on 2 answers

I think response time for IBM Cloud support should be improved.

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Gonzalo Angeleri

Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager

GRUPO DATCOInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have experienced great business insights from the operation of this product on our data and work environment. It closely monitors workflows to ensure that there is positive and regulated outcomes that meets company standards. It detects problems in early stages to avoid critical cases that can lead to higher cost and time wastage. It prepares data and all workloads to make the process of migration from our company to cloud servers more simple.

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Emma Woodbury

Software Engineer

AvanadeInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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We are using IBM Cloud App ID as a simple method to get an OIDC provider for our applications, that are running within the OpenShift cluster. Also, IBM Cloud Object Storage is used within the workload to store data via an s3 compliant way. The IBM Cloud Container Registry is an easy way to store the container images, that are used within the OpenShift cluster. Especially we configured the system in such a way to stop the image delivery if the container images are vulnerable. IBMs Cloud Pak for Integration and Business Automation is providing a rich feature set, that is tackling a lot of use-cases. They are both installable in the provided cluster easily.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
Positive - minimizes business interruption
Positive - limits disruptions to productivity

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Jaime L. Regan

Associate Attorney

Harris Beach PLLCLaw Practice, 201-500 employees

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Helped us migrate on perm apps to cloud
Provided easy to use dev experience for devs without kube experience
Provided a secure rbac solution for many different teams running workloads on the same cluster

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Foglight vs Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Foglight

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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Foglight

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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Foglight

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

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