We performed a comparison between Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] and SolarWinds AppOptics 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."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."
"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."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"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."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
Earn 20 points
Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Datadog and New Relic.
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