Foglight vs. Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Foglight
Score 10.0 out of 10
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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
Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor
Score 4.4 out of 10
N/A
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor from Idera is comprehensive server monitoring software that offers a unified view of servers’ health, including metrics on performance, availability, and capacity that are collected and preserved for reporting.N/A
Pricing
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FoglightIdera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
FoglightIdera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor
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User Testimonials
FoglightIdera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor
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.)
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Idera, Inc.
From my experience, production availability support is the best scenario. My SREs are working very closely with our NOC team, which is monitoring dashboards and using them to find issues and resolve them very quickly. We also can alert based on the metrics which is very useful to be aware of the issues in real-time.
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Pros
Quest Software
  • Database monitoring
  • Database management suite
  • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
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Idera, Inc.
  • Very simple and easy dashboard
  • Configurable dashboard
  • Very good statistics reports
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Cons
Quest Software
  • There are not many problems with this product
  • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
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Idera, Inc.
  • The tools is not very cheap
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Alternatives Considered
Quest Software
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Idera, Inc.
First of all, the most important difference for me is the ease of use, and ease of creating dashboards and metrics. The cloud monitor allowed us to migrate from our in-house system to a cloud-based system. It is not cheap, but compared to alternatives it is not that expensive.
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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.
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Idera, Inc.
  • Since availability is increased significantly, we are in much better relations with our customers now
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