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."The most valuable feature is high availability."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager has eased the responsibilities among our DBAs. We can now assign individual tasks to separate DBAs."
"The job subsystem, monitoring subsystem, alerting, grouping of targets, and reporting features are valuable to us."
"It is the best monitoring tool for Oracle databases."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are security and speed."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring because it's very useful for checking and troubleshooting compared with other products, like Nagios for example, that have some interaction with Oracle."
"It's a useful feature to be able to see the top SQL, the number of executions, the CPU, and the resources that it's using."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"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."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"My opinion is that this solution needs to improve consolidation. That is what our business needs the most right now."
"We have encountered performance issues when the load is huge."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The user interface is not very interactive. It needs improvement."
"The tool's pricing is costly."
"The tool is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
"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."
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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.