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."With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It's easy to use."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"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 most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"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."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"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."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"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."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"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 solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"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."
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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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