Foglight Experience
Rating: 8 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
Foglight is being used in our company to help our IS department to monitor our applications and infrastructure. It helps us to address from End User issues, application, vmware and database. It also help us to quickly be notified through integration with xMatters on important issues happening in our environment.
Pros
- VMWare Monitoring
- Custom use of scripts and dashboard
- Performance Analysis for Database
- Remote Monitoring for Linux and Windows.
Cons
- 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Foglight brought us a great value monitoring our Linux vmWare environment, very easy to use and implement and valuable script customization to integrate with our notification tool.