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."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."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"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."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"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."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"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."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"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."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"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."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"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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