Likelihood to Recommend 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.) Read full review SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market.
Read full review Pros Database monitoring Database management suite Customization (both monitors and dashboards) Read full review Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project It is fully open source Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
Read full review Cons There are not many problems with this product Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies Read full review No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools. You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management. Read full review Usability The usability and user experience are good in general, although sometimes some errors can cause confusion, especially for those users who are not experts.
Read full review Support Rating Use cases can be complex hence support as well. Problems have been solvable, but not always easily. It's great that there is support!
Read full review Alternatives Considered Read full review As we use only AWS EKS Clusters originally we were using the AWS Console and CLI but that is too limited in scope. Also, we were using AWS IAM roles to provide access to users but that was lots of extra work to have them integrated into SSO while on Rancher we have just connected our GitHub login with the Alfresco organization and that uses, in turn, Okta for SSO so provisioning for access is automatic for any developer who has been assigned to GitHub.
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model The investment for small environments is quite significant. There has to be a compelling case to enhance the areas where SUSE Rancher brings in value to make such a financial leap. There is also a free version to test the value propositions, which will help support the user's buying decisions. More clusters, more volume, more tasks and more complexity in the environment equals more value that Rancher can provide.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years. 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives. Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices
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