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."Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"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."
"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."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"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."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"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."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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 stability has been great."
"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."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"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."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"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."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also 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 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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