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it_user366621

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.

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it_user430641

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.

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it_user430590

Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 24, 2016

It was easy and saved costs.

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it_user422040

IT Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 11, 2016

FxV is valuable as we can playback the session.

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it_user421626

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.

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it_user421620

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

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it_user421539

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.

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Anton Kasimov

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 24, 2017

I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace.

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it_user494202

Pre-Sales DBA SQL Server Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jun 19, 2016

I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections.

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it_user387300

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.

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it_user366621

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.

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it_user430641

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.

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it_user430590

Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 24, 2016

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

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it_user422040

IT Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 11, 2016

They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV.

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it_user421626

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.

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it_user421620

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.

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it_user421539

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.

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