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."Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"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."
"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."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The stability has been great."
"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 version compatibility needs work."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"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."
"The price could be improved."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
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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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