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What is Foglight?
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.
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What is Foglight?
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Meet the increasingly complex demands of cross platform database performance monitoring for both on-premises and cloud database platforms.
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https://www.quest.com/products/foglight-for-cross-platform-databases/
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Great Visual Dashboard: Users have found Quest foglight to offer a visually appealing and intuitive dashboard for their datacenter. Several reviewers have mentioned that the visual representation of data makes it easy to solve performance event correlation.
Wide Range of Functionalities: The availability of optional cartridges such as SQL, Oracle, and ESXi has been highly appreciated by users. This enhancement allows for everything to be managed in the same console, providing convenience and efficiency for managing different platforms.
Real-time Data Display: Reviewers have highlighted the valuable feature of real-time data display in the interface. Being able to see the latest information instantaneously helps users stay informed about their system's performance and make timely decisions.
Confusing User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the confusing user interface of the product, which has made it challenging to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. The layout and navigation are not intuitive, requiring extra time and effort to understand how to use the software effectively.
Unhelpful Customer Support: Numerous reviewers have mentioned that customer support is unhelpful and often takes a long time to provide solutions to their issues. Users have reported delays in receiving assistance, leading to prolonged downtime and frustration.
Inconvenient Installation Process: Some users find the installation process inconvenient as it requires a Windows server and SQL Express database. This requirement can be burdensome for those who prefer different operating systems or databases, causing additional steps and potential compatibility issues during setup.
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November 02, 2022
THE MOST BROAD AND EXHAUSTIVE FOR THE HYBRID COMPANY.
Foglight is a monitoring and optimization solution that provides performance monitoring and diagnostic capabilities in virtual machines and cloud offerings, reducing the risks of the hybrid cloud strategy, it is a tool that helps to migrate workloads running optimally. and reducing risks, It is used to keep the business running, Foglight's capabilities extend to hybrid environments providing a comprehensive performance solution.
- It helps IT teams overcome the dual challenges of disparate technical infrastructures and limited experience with multiple database and vitalization platforms.
- Foglight allows detecting and diagnosing performance problems simplifying hybrid environments, it is a solution that has perfect features which work in a flexible and intuitive way, it allows database performance in a safe and fast way. It works perfectly with nothing else to add.
- Simplification of hybrid environments.
- Safety and efficacy.
- Average resolution time reduction.
- 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.
Foglight is a tool that allows productivity to advance quickly and safely, offering data monitoring and optimization, guaranteeing the success of our business. It is a solution that provides relevant data for strategy and data analysis without losing sight of the final objective. It is a software that provides excellent features and maximum performance, provides reliability, saves time and prevents future errors. The experience is satisfactory.
July 13, 2021
Foglight: Turn key monitoring with automation feature set for environments with modest customization
- [Foglight is] used to monitor virtualized environment (VMware) Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server w/ Analytics and other physical servers and software subsystems.
- The problems it solves for are active monitoring and alerting (uptime monitoring), historical baseline and trending, surfacing changes to hardware/software, log aggregation and analysis.
- Graphing and visualization of complex data sets
- Historical baselining and trending
- Automation of common tasks for response to known issues
- Aggregation and correlation of data across time series
- Threshold limits for alerting are not easily set to custom instances or groupings (things like customizing free disk space alerts for systems with enormous volumes to alert at a different threshold % than those with smaller volumes)
- Groovy requires a learning curve/specialized skill set for modifying rule sets
- Quest (perhaps as a victim of being purchased and then subsequently sold off by Dell) has deprecated a number of the subsystem cartridges (Storage etc.) that we depended upon including the lowest common denominator one (snmp) that is used to create monitors around proprietary systems and hardware that has no other api/monitoring capability
- Support has in past taken *months* to get an answer to issues that they had already solved for under another cartridge (e.g. disabling of SMB v1 caused their Exchange cartridge to have monitoring failures - they corrected this. Odd issues with another cartridge took literally 6 months to figure out that these were related to the disabling of SMB v1 as well. This was very frustrating.
- Other products offer more advanced analytics so it seems they have been falling behind. If this were a very inexpensive product I would not fault this but the licensing for Foglight is not inexpensive.
- Completeness of solution for being able to monitor (nearly) everything from a single management plane
- Ease of use for end users / operations staff
- Virtualization optimization and reporting feature set
- Initially it was very positive until they started paring away some of the feature sets we depended upon
- We have recently deprecated Foglight in the environment and have replaced it with a combination of an APM solution, Enterprise Log aggregation and Event Management system
- The cost of the solution as the functionality was reduced lowered the ROI overall and coupled with our need of a solution that could do the on-prem and cloud simultaneously it forced our hand to deprecate.
- I still say that Quest is better at visually presenting ugly data in an intelligent manner than nearly everybody else in the space.
- GroundWork, Nagios Core, vRealize Operations, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor and PRTG Network Monitor
Foglight was chosen years ago as a replacement for Groundwork. After 2.5 years of implementing Groundwork things were still not complete and the decision to go with a more formalized solution was made. Foglight installed easily and quickly nearly across the board and the full implementation for complex infrastructure was completed (with no Professional Services) by us in under 4 months. Nagios is a wonderful toolkit but you have to be ready to build what you need. It's flexibility and breadth are excellent features but with that comes the need to define things very tightly lest you embark on the project that never ends (see above about Groundwork). Dynatrace is an excellent APM tool and has advanced analytics but as a general infrastructure monitoring tool it is actually very expensive and to be honest does not have the same focus and full feature set that it does on it's APM (which to be fair is it's wheelhouse). vROPs (we also have) is a wonderful tool but focused (and rightly so) on satisfying the VMware engineers in the crowd and doesn't put itself out there too far to make things palatable for the non-engineering crowd.