We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager eight out of 10 for stability."
"It can also help with capacity planning, sizing, and maximizing overall performance in a large scale environment."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager triggers critical alerts."
"I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."
"I think the look and feel and the accessibility to the databases, the scale of environment support."
"The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"I have found the uptime of all of our systems to be most valuable with this solution. This is important because we need to guarantee specific uptime and preventive maintenance. We need to know upfront if there are going to be any issues on the database so we can proactively solve those."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"RMAN tools need improvement."
"In my experience, the monitoring could be improved."
"The product is pretty comprehensive, but quite resource hungry. This might be due to the majority of the application seemingly being written in Java."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There are limited numbers of other OEM devices that can be integrated into enterprise management that can be scaled by Oracle by adding other OEM devices to enterprise management."
"The interface could be more friendly for basic users."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"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."
"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."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
"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."
"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 122 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Development and Management. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". 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". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, Quest Foglight for Databases and AppDynamics, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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I would recommend go with Enterprise manager as it will give you a more graphical view about performance.
Foglight is typical for sql queries whereas EM will give you OS performance too.
I have recently installed OEM 12c Cloud control and it has some cool features like ASH analysis and ADDM comparison to check to time-periods and compare how and where performance has changed.
If you need any assistance in setting up OEM 12C, I can help.
I never use OEM for PeopleSoft but I use FogLight for monitoring WebLogic. I think FogLight should make the dashboard easier.