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We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Question: Oracle Enterprise Manager vs. Foglight for PeopleSoft Applications?
Answer: I agree with Farooq Khalid, You can use OEM for Weblogic monitoring and performance checks.
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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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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  • "It is part of Real Application Testing, so no new investment is necessary for clients who already are already using RAT."
  • "As with all Oracle products, care should be taken when using any features to ensure that they do not activate licensed features that have not been paid for."
  • "The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features."
  • "The pricing is very high."
  • "We are satisfied with the pricing."
  • "There is only the standard licensing fee. There are no other costs."
  • "Evaluate your requirements carefully. Elaborate DR and HA setup of OEM can become expensive."
  • "Be careful to only enable the packs for which you have a license as this is an issue we see time and again."
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  • "I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."
  • "The price is expensive for us."
  • "Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."
  • "Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."
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    Farooq Khalid - PeerSpot reviewerFarooq Khalid
    Real User

    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.

    it_user147873 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user147873 (Senior Manager of Engineering at a tech company with 10,001+ employees)
    Vendor

    I never use OEM for PeopleSoft but I use FogLight for monitoring WebLogic. I think FogLight should make the dashboard easier.

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    Top Answer:Initially, our deal was for three years, and we extended it to five years. Oracle solutions are very costly. We have totally our solution and including hardware with its license. we have no product… more »
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    Overview

    Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.

    With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.

    Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products

    • Hardware and virtualization management: Manage all Oracle environments from one central console. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides management and automation for Oracle engineered systems, databases, middleware, and hardware.

    • Database management: Oracle’s Database management provides a full lifecycle solution for updates and configuration management, patching, provisioning, testing, performance management and automatic tuning.

    • Application performance management (APM): User and database monitoring with diagnostics and performance analysis that provide rich reporting on real user activities.

    • Enterprise monitoring: Built-in monitoring of all components of the IT infrastructure enables rapid problem diagnosis. Both Oracle and non-Oracle components are constantly monitored.

    • Oracle real user experience insight: Insights on real user experiences and preferences enable businesses and IT stakeholders to develop a shared understanding into their application users’ experience.

    • Non-Oracle management: Oracle Enterprise Manager manages non-Oracle components with a comprehensive set of plugins. The self-update mechanism allows customers to download, import, and deploy extensions built by Oracle, Oracle partners, and Oracle customers. These extensions enjoy the same level of stability as Oracle's own products.

    • Installation and upgrade: The upgrade process provides efficient, reliable, secure data migration with minimal downtime of your environment.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities

    Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."

    PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics.  They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”

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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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