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Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user366621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 15, 2016
Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents.
it_user374136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Problem Analyst with 10,001+ employees
Jan 21, 2016
Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive.
it_user409929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 21, 2016
The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results.
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it_user411168 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Specialist at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 23, 2016
Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable.
it_user421539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session.
it_user421620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Virtualization Architect / Engineer. at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics
it_user421626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer & Owner at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware ​environments, including top consumers of resources.
it_user422040 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 11, 2016
FxV is valuable as we can playback the session.
it_user430641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Cloud Architect at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apr 24, 2016
Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost.
it_user387300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Foglight Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 11, 2016
Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me.
 

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user366621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 15, 2016
Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful.
it_user374136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Problem Analyst with 10,001+ employees
Jan 21, 2016
SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions.
it_user409929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 21, 2016
There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work.
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it_user411168 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Specialist at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 23, 2016
The version compatibility needs work.
it_user421539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory.
it_user421620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Virtualization Architect / Engineer. at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment.
it_user421626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer & Owner at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 10, 2016
The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement.
it_user422040 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 11, 2016
They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV.
it_user430641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Cloud Architect at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apr 24, 2016
I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database.
it_user387300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Foglight Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 11, 2016
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.