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."Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"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."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"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."
"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."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"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."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"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."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"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."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
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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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