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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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THE MOST BROAD AND EXHAUSTIVE FOR THE HYBRID COMPANY.

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Juana WilsonView profile
Human Resources Assistant in Human Resources at Las Vegas Premier Marketing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • It helps IT teams overcome the dual challenges of disparate technical infrastructures and limited experience with multiple database and vitalization platforms.

Cons

  • 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.

Most Important Features

  • Simplification of hybrid environments.
  • Safety and efficacy.
  • Average resolution time reduction.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Cyberduck, Azure HPC Cache and Arcserve Backup

Other Software Used

Cyberduck, Azure HPC Cache, Arcserve Backup

Database monitoring powerhouse

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Aletha DiazView profile
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Esri (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Database monitoring
  • Database management suite
  • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, ScienceLogic, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Foglight: Turn key monitoring with automation feature set for environments with modest customization

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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.

Most Important Features

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

GroundWork, Nagios Core, vRealize Operations, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor and PRTG Network Monitor

Other Software Used

Zerto, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), vRealize Suite, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale, Wasabi Object Storage, Redis, Apache Kafka, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Progress MOVEit (formerly Ipswitch MOVEit), HPE Synergy, HPE OneView, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series

Foglight - Shining a Light on Potential Server Issues Before They Arise

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Jaime L. ReganView profile
Associate Attorney in Legal at Harris Beach PLLC (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Integration with platforms
  • Uniformity
  • Pinpointing of issues

Cons

  • There are not many problems with this product
  • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies

Return on Investment

  • Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
  • Positive - minimizes business interruption
  • Positive - limits disruptions to productivity

Alternatives Considered

Oracle

Other Software Used

Oracle Access Management

Foglight Experience

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Anderson CostaView profile
Middleware Administrator in Information Technology at Gordon Food Service (10,001+ employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Great value for vmWare monitoring.
  • Helps our eCommerce team to troubleshoot issues and make end user experience better.

Other Software Used

IBM Tivoli NetCool/OMNIbus, CA APM, xMatters, Splunk