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

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of OmniPeek was the ability it gave us to see the connection procedure.""The most valuable features are the voice bot, which checks the quality of service for voice, and the expert view that gives me insight on what and where to troubleshoot.""It's a solid piece of software. It's stable.""The most valuable feature of OmniPeek is the ability to assign custom color codes to the different packets easily.""I believe the most crucial feature of OmniPeek search is the ability to sniff packets based on channel switching.""The most valuable feature is OmniPeek is user-friendly."

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"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session.""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.""Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me.""Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive.""With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session.""Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur.""Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics""Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."

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"Making it more clear on how to configure the filters, or really automating them, would be an improvement.""The solution's automation has room for improvement.""I don't see a clear roadmap in the future for improving this software.""I would like to see the saving feature improved. We have had issues if you do not save your progress then you have to start from the beginning.""I would like to see the tool work in an open environment the same as how it does in a closed environment.""I am not using OmniPeek for automation, we only do manual testing. Automation testing is tedious to do. The automation should be more user-friendly. I have exposed some APIs but the usage is not user-friendly."

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"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.""I want to see mobile access application in the next release.""SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions.""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.""They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV.""It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment.""I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database.""I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing for this solution could be improved, as it is a very expensive product."
  • "There are different types of licenses available."
  • "We have only purchased the add-on once and have not paid for any subsequent versions as it was too costly for us."
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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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    Top Answer:It's a solid piece of software. It's stable.
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    Overview

    Omnipeek is a top-rated suite of network analytics software that offers full transparency and trusted forensics for immediate resolution of application and network performance anomalies and security issues. Omnipeek is part of the LiveAction family of quality trusted products. They specialize in packet intelligence with adaptable workflows and complete visibility throughout numerous network segments to facilitate a better understanding of network performance and dependability concerns in real time.

    Omnipeek combines intuitive geolocation, usability, security, and performance to deliver a robust user experience that facilitates immediate discovery and problem-solving of wireless and wired networks.

    Omnipeek is user friendly and offers many different intuitive dashboards, display options, graphs, peer maps, and packets. There are several different capture options, such as TCP dump, multiple adapters, local captures, and Capture Assistant. Omnipeek integrates well with Snort and Suricata intrusion and detection prevention solutions, allowing users to import events easily. The comprehensive analysis tools, such as Expert Flow Analysis, Web Traffic Analysis, Multi-Segment Analysis, and Local File Analysis combine to make Omnipeek a solid, complete solution.

    Omnipeek is effective for small offices to large enterprise data centers.

    Omnipeek Benefits

    • Omnipeek delivers unmatched transparency into applications, networks, and classification of layer 7 workflows.

    • Intuitive GUI presents a clear, intuitive view of packet-based analytics by conversation pairs.

    • Ability to capture and dissect 802.11n and 802.11ac wireless traffic from currently deployed points from third-party vendors such as Aruba, Cisco, and others.

    • Investigate traffic from all remote network segments, such as voice and video over IP, 802.11,1/10/40/100 Gigabit, Ethernet using the LiveCapture features and appliances.

    • Audit voice and video over IP traffic in real time using call back play, thorough signaling and media analyses, and high-level multi-media summary statistics.

    • Improve the average time to resolve failure with super fast intuition and interconnection with packet data, metadata, flows, and files.

    Omnipeek Features

    • WiFi monitoring: Using Omnipeek LiveCapture 1100, users are able to thoroughly monitor wired packet traffic and gather wireless traffic from WLAN controllers. Users can easily monitor, dissect, log, and diagnose multi-Gigabit speed 802.11ac traffic.

    • Improved LiveAction appliance support: LiveAction update appliances and software uses the innovative Del architectures and Intel capabilities to improve network packet capture-to-disk to 20Gbps in a 2RU system, with up to 128 TB of storage.

    • Improved VOIP processes: Now offering updates to performance and in synthesizing DTMF audio tones, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and Asserted Identity (caller ID), makes Omnipeek a very robust, complete solution.

    • Improved financial transaction support: The solution provides updated support for ISO8583 protocol necessary for financial and banking organizations. Users have the ability to dissect critical data more thoroughly than with previous iterations.

    • Expert improvements: Users have access to several more Expert events, enhanced latency calculations, and many other improvements to the Expert views in Omnipeek.

    • 3rd party authentication improvements: Efficient workflow for 3rd party authentication results in enhanced performance for Access Control Lists (ACL).

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    Sample Customers
    Apcon, Aruba Networks, Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems, Ekahau, Gigamon Systems, HP, IBM, IXIA, Meru Networks, Napatech, NextComputing, Procera Networks, Qualcomm Atheros, Ralink Technology Corporation, Telchemy
    Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Retailer11%
    Educational Organization9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm44%
    Healthcare Company11%
    Educational Organization11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise52%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise57%
    Buyer's Guide
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    OmniPeek is ranked 29th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. OmniPeek is rated 7.8, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OmniPeek writes "Easy to identify packets, beneficial color assigning, and responsive support". 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". OmniPeek is most compared with LiveAction LiveNX, Colasoft Capsa, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.

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