dbWatch vs. Foglight

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
dbWatch
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
According to the vendor, dbWatch is a complete and scalable database monitoring solution, helping enterprises monitor and manage any number of SQLServer and Oracle database servers efficiently. dbWatch also supports Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase. The vendor promises that dbWatch will give companies total control over all aspects of operation, performance, analytics and resource usage. Additionally, the vendor claims that dbWatch will have the total overview companies need in order to…
$350
5-9 instances
Foglight
Score 10.0 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
Pricing
dbWatchFoglight
Editions & Modules
MariaDB/Sybase
$350
5-9 instances
MS-SQL/PostgreSQL
$425
5-9 instances
MS-SQL Server/Oracle
$600
5-9 instances
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
dbWatchFoglight
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
dbWatchFoglight
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
dbWatchFoglight
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
dbWatchFoglight
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very fabulous with the support of Oracle and MySQL servers. Excellent with getting real-time health reports. Magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Intuitive and intuitive UI.
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It really depends on why my colleague is evaluating Foglight. If it is for Database monitoring and management, I highly recommend it. If it is for anything else, I would encourage them to look at others in this space.
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Pros
  • It's a magnificent with getting health reports on our database.
  • Excellent with monitoring our MS SQL server.
  • Terrific with monitoring our database.
  • Intuitive user dashboard.
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  • VMWare Monitoring
  • Custom use of scripts and dashboard
  • Performance Analysis for Database
  • Remote Monitoring for Linux and Windows.
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Cons
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  • 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.
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Alternatives Considered
Flexibility and magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Excellent with SSL certification management. Terrific with DB monitoring. Intuitive and easy to customize our dashboard.
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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.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
  • Positive - minimizes business interruption
  • Positive - limits disruptions to productivity
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ScreenShots

dbWatch Screenshots

Screenshot of dbWatch global dashboard