Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Reviews

Name: Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]
Brand: Quest Software
Rating: 4 (22 reviews)

Vendor: Quest Software

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Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

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it_user409929

Senior Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 21, 2016

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. Additionally the ability to track both real and synthetic user performance and compare real to synthetic user performance as a baseline is important to us on several fronts; real users make human decisions and we can see how their performance compares to "perfect" synthetic users running scripts to do similar tasks. And because our synthetic users run consistently 24/7 we also can compare peak traffic performance to off peak performance.

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it_user409644

IT Consultant - Infrastructure Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 21, 2016

The extensive monitoring tools embedded in Foglight are a real asset. You can really drill deep into the how and why an alert was created As a systems operator, Foglight helped with pinpointing issues with database performance and thus improved our reaction speed. The information we received…

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it_user124704

PeopleSoft Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 1, 2015

The upgrade process could use some fine tuning. I have done an upgrade of the system as well as added\updated agents, and sometimes that process is a bit cumbersome, and does not go as planned. The JAVA monitor agent also definitely could be more streamlined in terms of monitoring and updating. Also they could use an easier method of 'archiving' data that you do not need necessarily as well as updating agent monitor thresholds. As an update to this, we recently went through an upgrade and went to a newer version (Foglight 5.6.11.3). I would have to say the upgrade process was much better more seamless than previous upgrades. The only item\s that were an issue were the Java EE cartridges for monitoring our Java Weblogic instance. But even that was more straight forward than previous upgrades. Since we will be upgrading to a newer ERP version next year, I will review and update this post to see what if any changes were needed (Cartridge, FMS, Agents) to continue monitoring our new ERP version/release.

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Valuable Features

"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."

Room for Improvement

"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"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."
"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."