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We performed a comparison between Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur.""Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive.""Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents.""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.""Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics""With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session.""The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end.""It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."

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"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it.""This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions.""It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places.""This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring.""It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention.""The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development.""SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers.""It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."

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Cons
"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.""The version compatibility needs work.""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.""The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement.""It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment.""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.""I want to see mobile access application in the next release."

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"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable.""Application monitoring must be improved.""There could be more integration of SIM in the solution.""The solution’s initial setup is difficult.""The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department.""The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved.""It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product.""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."

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  • "I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."
  • "The price is expensive for us."
  • "Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."
  • "Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."
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  • "The pricing and licensing are fair."
  • "Our licensing fees are approximately $30 per user, per month."
  • "If you have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, then this is part of the agreement."
  • "It is more expensive than the competition."
  • "SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
  • "We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
  • "The pricing is good, and it's part of their system center suite."
  • "We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
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    In Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    3rd
    out of 20 in Event Monitoring
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    Comparisons
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    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    433
    Rating
    8.1
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    Also Known As
    Foglight, Dell Foglight
    System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
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    Overview
    Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

    SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is a cross-platform data center monitoring and reporting tool that checks the status of various objects defined within the environment, such as server hardware, system services, etc. The solution allows data center administrators to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor the operations, services, devices and applications of multiple enterprise IT systems via a single pane of glass. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes.

    SCOM Features

    SCOM has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Application monitoring
    • Database monitoring
    • Threshold alerts
    • IT Asset Discovery
    • Predictive capabilities
    • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
    • Application performance management console
    • Server availability and performance monitoring
    • Collaboration tools
    • Virtualization monitoring
    • Patch management
    • Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
    • Application dependency mapping and thresholding

    SCOM Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing SCOM. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Management and monitoring of Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms
    • Remotely connect to Windows machines and perform administrative tasks from the console itself
    • Custom dashboard creation to help monitor the datacenter with ease
    • Agent based monitoring
    • Integrates well with other Microsoft products
    • Easy to use and reliable

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the SCOM solution.

    A Manager at a financial services firm says, “The feature I like most about SCOM is that it is easy-to-use. I find it very user-friendly. I also like the knowledge base which it has. You can find the resolution to questions or issues directly within the SCOM itself. It will alert you with a recommendation of what you need to do at the same time. This sort of self-diagnosis or prompting is one of the great values you get from SCOM compared to other solutions.”

    PeerSpot user Zahari Z., Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm, mentions, “Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications. There is a mechanism to set up a notification from the SCOM and whenever there is a drop in the availability the notification alerts not only for availability but for other issues as well. You can align thresholds according to the speed of your environment and you can have a threshold related notification, which is one of the useful features.”

    Bill W., Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government, comments, “ I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time. When we patch, things are automatically put into maintenance mode so that the numbers for our systems being down, do not count against us.”

    A Project Manager at a tech services company explains, “The feature I have found most valuable is the book feature. While we run the Sprint one we can add some setups for multiple sprints.”

    A Systems Engineer at an educational organization states, “Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.”

    Sample Customers
    Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com
    Dialog Telekom
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Educational Organization11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Retailer11%
    Government9%
    Healthcare Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise57%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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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 13 reviews. Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI.

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