Dynatrace vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

"Dynatrace is a single platform. It has all these different tools but they are actually all baked into the OneAgent technology. Within that OneAgent... you have the different tool sets. You have threat analysis, memory dumps, Java analysis, the database statements, and so on. It's all included in this OneAgent. So the management is actually quite easy."

"Dynatrace is the market leader for good reason."

"You get a good insight into what is going on inside your code."

"The product installs quickly and immediately. It begins to learn the architecture of the systems which need to be monitored. It then learns what “normal” looks like, so there really is no need for manual configuration."

"You can do deep dive analysis and find root cause quickly."

"The primary use case is to monitor all our applications. We want a single place where we can monitor all our applications that we are building. Therefore, if something goes wrong, we immediately can find out what went wrong."

"It will allow us to eventually become more proactive when problems start arising. We can see them before they happen and address them before there is any impact to our customers."

"The most valuable feature is the auto-baseline because I don't have to set it with Dynatrace."

"Foglight Enterprise was the most scalable and easy to deploy tool."

"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"

"We are able to capture the real time user experience of our solutions and we have an understanding of overall performance."

"Excellent monitoring capability and business service views"

"Our ROI has been great it has saved us many times to resolve issues before customers started complaining."

"The extensive monitoring tools embedded in Foglight are a real asset."

"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."

"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."

"We ran into a problem where the Dynatrace JavaScript agent is returning errors, and it's very apparent that there's a problem."

"The analytics feature provides us some information, but is limited for now. We want to see how we can consume the data further down and have analytics guys look at the datacenter information.​"

"Dashboarding and having different templates available for more business reporting, or even other metrics, would be useful."

"From the Dynatrace SaaS platform, they talk about the APIs. The approach they take is, "We create the APIs, you use them however you want." I like it, that gives us flexibility. But at the same time, if your company does not have a huge number of APM specialists, or it does not have the time and resources available to spend on these kind of technology developments, it would be helpful if there were out-of-the-box solutions available from the platform. I would certainly consider that, because that would make us go to market much faster, rather than redeveloping our own solutions based on those APIs."

"This tool had a feature of doing load test in production or lower environment, which was shut down earlier this year. We are missing that feature badly and we definitely want to see that feature back."

"This is an expensive solution which makes it difficult to sell to customers."

"It would be nice if there were a way that it could be made simpler, given the complexity of the things that we're monitoring."

"I'd like to see native support, because we're launching native apps in multiple countries so we really want to have a really good feel for how those apps are going and how well they're performing, if there are issues."

"The upgrade process could use some fine tuning. I have done an upgrade of the system as well as addedupdated agents, and sometimes that process is a bit cumbersome, and does not go as planned."

"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features."

"In an older version of Foglight, we were not able to get any of our custom agents to work properly so that feature was not as much use as we had initially hoped and haven't tried using since."

"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."

"Complicated setup and maintenance."

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

"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."

"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."

"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."

"Just go with Dynatrace. Just start with Dynatrace. Do not go into AppMon. Start with Dynatrace, because AppMon is going to give you so much extra stuff that 99% of your user base will not need it, including yourself."

"I think the pricing is at a fair value for what it is."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"There is a license cost, which is obviously more expensive than an open-source solution, but for the return on investment from what you get from it, it's a great investment. Of course, it could always be cheaper."

"It's more expensive than other solutions, but worth it. We use full APM monitoring on our primary systems, but only resource monitoring on lesser systems. We shift licenses around our environment when a deeper dive into lesser systems is required."

"Consider volume because that is where you will get the most benefit. Doing a point solution is not cost-effective."

"Dynatrace is still kind of an expensive solution compared to others. But I recognize that they are ahead of the competition when we do a feature by feature comparison."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."

"The price is expensive for us."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."