Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user366621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 15, 2016
Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents.
it_user421620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics
it_user409929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2016
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.
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it_user421539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session.
AK
May 24, 2017
The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end.
it_user421626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware ​environments, including top consumers of resources.
it_user387300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2016
Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me.
it_user374136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 21, 2016
Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive.
it_user494202 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2016
It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers.
it_user414102 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 29, 2016
Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur.
 

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user366621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 15, 2016
Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful.
it_user421620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment.
it_user409929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2016
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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it_user421539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
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.
AK
May 24, 2017
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.
it_user421626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 10, 2016
The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement.
it_user387300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2016
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.
it_user374136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 21, 2016
SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions.
it_user430590 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 24, 2016
I want to see mobile access application in the next release.
it_user494202 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 19, 2016
I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections.