Foglight vs SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

• 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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• Top N SQL queries.
• Outstanding UI for rapid examination and drill down to detail data.
• Intuitive UI design - better than any other product in its category.
• Enabled us to immediately shift DB related performance matters first to developers so that our DBA's can focus on more important matters.

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

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• Resiliency of the Monitoring checks after the server underwent maintenance reboot. My experience is the monitor (Action) needs to be started manually. If possible it can automatically detect service/server then start to monitor again when system is back up.
• Much lighter UI.
• Granularity up to minutes.

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• For the past 5 years, we heavily leveraged their application synthetic capabilities which caught several outages to our online presence before our users did or as they did, saving us valuable time and money to get back up and running.
• Their ability to deep dive into databases has helped the rollout of our new software, speeding up the time to market. We have been able to identify problems with our code in the staging and development tiers, ensuring we release better, more stable software to our customers.

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• DPA allows our DBA to be more agile and find solutions to SQL problems faster. This results in better service to our end users, and better performance on the EHR system to our providers, allowing them to complete chart service for a patient much faster.

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