We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] 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."Visibility to the end-users is a valuable feature."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."
"The most valuable feature in this solution, for our business, is the clear way of projecting the connections between the database and the traffic inflow. This is very helpful when troubleshooting issues."
"Data monitoring is the most valuable feature."
"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."
"The product is easy to install, it took about half an hour. The use and the configurations are simple as well."
"The features related to the application performance in AppDynamics Database Monitoring are the most valuable."
"What I found valuable in AppDynamics Database Monitoring is good technical support. I also like that it's scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"The application monitoring needs improvement. It needs to be easier for someone who isn't a proficient developer."
"The solution could improve the server size for AppDynamics to include middleware products, which is doesn't yet cover. If they add middleware for sophisticated sites, AppDynamics would be the global choice."
"This product has an issue with initial lag upon opening that we would like to see improved."
"The product's drawback is the licensing pricing. It could be better."
"They could align the product strategy to evolve as a complete solution."
"The setup, implementation and use are clumsy and need to be refined."
"I believe they need to increase their level of visibility in the infrastructure, particularly in the infrastructure monitoring section, which currently lacks visibility."
"The solution needs to support IBM products."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"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."
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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 17th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". On the other hand, 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". AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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