We performed a comparison between Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"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."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"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."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"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."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"The price could be improved."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
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Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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