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."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"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."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"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."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"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."
"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."
"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 want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"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."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
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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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