Foglight vs. Woodler SMT

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

Independently Invited by TrustRadius

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Woodler SMT is intended to be [a] specialized SQL Server monitoring tool. Unlike other monitoring systems, Woodler SMT does not take care [of] networks, AD, and other stuff along [with] company infrastructures. As for me, at least, this makes the Woodler SMT very strong in its area of expertise. If anybody is looking for [professional,] specialized SQL performance monitoring, the Woodler SMT would be the best choice. For general monitoring, this tool rather will not help.

• Database monitoring
• Database management suite
• Customization (both monitors and dashboards)

Incentivized

Independently Invited by TrustRadius

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• It contains all the diagnostics information that you need for optimization of queries, deep analysis of SQL server state, and much more
• Regular deployment of a new versions with minor fixes but mainly with the new features.
• It helps to make operational decisions, how to improve the performance and also expansion of the whole environment.
• Buying this also contains excellent service from the Woodler support.

• There are not many problems with this product
• Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies

Incentivized

Independently Invited by TrustRadius

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• Sysadmin access to your system.
• Consumes disk capacity on monitored server to store all the data.

Incentivized

Independently Invited by TrustRadius

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We like Woodler SMT because we can benefit from Woodler Support team to connect to our servers and help us with different issues.

• 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

Independently Invited by TrustRadius

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• It saves the time of troubleshooting
• It increases user's satisfaction with products relaying on SQL Server's performance