Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Reviews

Workload analysis (database workload in active time) they should more information data and analyze wait state analysis is valuable data to predictions or clarify issue.

I want to see mobile access application in the next release. 

We have had no stability issues.

There have been no issues with scaling it for our needs.

Get more requirement from your customer if they have a performance issue with a critical database. You should read carefully the release notes and prerequisites before implementation. Ask your customer for hardware sizing and credentials. For Foglight performance analysis, you need to create a new database schema on your monitored host and you need at least 1GB space on a monitored host for storing data and logs.

I’m a DBA for a big e-commerce site. Foglight quickly helped us reduce the amount of money lost.

Its module history query increased DBA efficiency. 90% of the time, we couldn’t catch problems in real time. This module helped us with that.

One night at 01:00, we had several customers’ purchase attempts time out, and result in a half-hour outage. Foglight stored the bad queries and we quickly identified the bad code that locked the main database. We corrected it with the developer team.

It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers.

I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup was straightforward.

The stability we have as a result of using it made up for the cost of the product within a month.

A DBA is needed to use Foglight correctly.

We are able to view infrastructure through a single pane of glass and are able to build services and SLA.

Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me.

Application Monitoring. We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort.

To be honest, we have stopped using customer support and technical support because of the slow pace in which our SR's are resolved. We often fix the issues before Dell support is able to.

I did not form part of the initial setup but have subsequently been involved in the deploy of a new setup. I found that it is a bit complex if you have no background in ESM.

We implemented our initial implementation with the vendor and we have subsequently deployed the latest version in house and we were able to implement seamlessly.

We have not realized a good ROI on the product due to the fact that we were not able to monitor our core application which runs on Webmethods . We are also unable to monitor AS400 DB2 database transactions, which results in a broken telephone effect.

Foglight is an awesome tool and it is able to instrument and integrate easily with any monitoring tool. However, you have to have a good knowledge of software development, as well as a proper understanding of architecture and infrastructure.

It has minimized induced downtime. We can watch the performance instantly and continuously.

Formed on our system and we're watching events that may occur. We find the source of the problem easily. Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur.

There are no new changes in our expectations, because we use for many years.

We have had no issues with the stability.

We had no issues scaling it for our needs.

We are going to contact the vendor (Dataserv) if a problem occurs. So far they have found the solution to all our problems.

The installation is simple, but it takes time to adapt them to the structure.

We work constantly with the vendor's engineer.

The price is expensive for us.

When we chose this product did not have too many alternatives.

I would recommend this product as it's been very successful for us.

Over all in my organization, this product helped us to maintain health, risk and efficiency of the virtual infrastructure. With virtual network switch support, administrators get full visibility into bottlenecks.

Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost.

I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database. 

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

Overall I loved the product. Easy to navigate and gives very detailed information on every piece that you are looking for.