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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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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 …
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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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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.
Reviews
(1-5 of 5)THE MOST BROAD AND EXHAUSTIVE FOR THE HYBRID COMPANY.
- 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: 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.
- 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
- 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.)
- 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.
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Database monitoring powerhouse
- Database monitoring
- Database management suite
- Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
- GUI interface is difficult to navigate
- No APM capabilities. They left this space about a year ago
- We have had issues with the GUI response times. On a regular basis, the interface can take several minutes to refresh
- 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.
- AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, ScienceLogic, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- Integration with platforms
- Uniformity
- Pinpointing of issues
- There are not many problems with this product
- Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
- Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
- Positive - minimizes business interruption
- Positive - limits disruptions to productivity
- Oracle
Foglight Experience
- VMWare Monitoring
- Custom use of scripts and dashboard
- Performance Analysis for Database
- Remote Monitoring for Linux and Windows.
- A common complaint I hear from our users is that it has a confusing UI.
- For End User monitoring it requires a good time troubleshooting "network issues", creating the right filters and make sure you are receiving the right information which sometimes is not straight forward to figure out.
- Had issues in the past for Foglight firing false alarms monitoring Weblogic Application Servers, it required a lot of customization to adjust those metrics. Although those are no longer a issue with their latest release of the cartridge for application servers.
- Great value for vmWare monitoring.
- Helps our eCommerce team to troubleshoot issues and make end user experience better.