Foglight vs. SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Foglight

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Foglight	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Foglight 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
SQL Server BI Manager	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	Houston-based Idera's SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager is an IT infrastructure monitoring option.	N/A

Pricing

Foglight

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Foglight	SQL Server BI Manager
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Foglight	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Top Pros	Pro Nice reporting Pro Database management Pro Use case	Pro Sql server Pro Easy monitoring Pro Single server
Top Cons	Minus Linux distributions Minus Network issues Minus Difficult to navigate	Minus Drill down Minus Training is needed Minus Larger organization

Features

Foglight

SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Foglight - Ratings	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager 7.8 4 Ratings 7% below category average
Performance dashboard	00 Ratings	8.04 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	00 Ratings	8.54 Ratings
Top SQL	00 Ratings	8.54 Ratings
Historical trend data	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Virtualization support	00 Ratings	6.03 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Foglight	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Foglight	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (5 ratings)	7.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Foglight	SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager
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.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Idera Software SQL Server [Business Intelligence] Manager is useful for tracking performance across SSIS, SSRS and SSA and have the data represented in dashboards. It helps improve performance and helps end users. However, several features are redundant for smaller organization that can use the tools that comes with existing Microsoft products. These features also takes time to learn and use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Quest Software Database monitoring Database management suite Customization (both monitors and dashboards) Incentivized Aletha Diaz Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Read full review	Idera Software Types of alerts Dashboard view Configurable Alerts Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Quest Software There are not many problems with this product Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies Incentivized Jaime L. Regan Associate Attorney Read full review	Idera Software Lacks versioning control. Lacks support/native driver for alternative database. Only plays well with other Microsoft products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Quest Software Incentivized Anderson Costa Middleware Administrator Read full review	Idera Software SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager does what SQL Server Management Studio should already do natively. So it actually fills up important gaps Microsoft left in its product. Incentivized Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized JW Juana Wilson Human Resources Assistant Read full review	Idera Software More efficiencies throughout the BI stack Less employees needed for monitoring all the BI processing Proactive error handling Incentivized Samir Patel, PMP SQL Development Team Lead Read full review
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