Quest Foglight for Databases Reviews

MenojRoekalea

Senior Database Consultant

Oct 02 2018

Its reporting capabilities are immense. The performance became sluggish and unresponsive after holding data too long.

What is most valuable?

* Baselines * Advisers * Reoccurring events * Its reporting capabilities are immense. * The deployment is good to work with. * History capabilities

How has it helped my organization?

Maintenance was not done properly for over two years before I came in. The solution crashed over the next year, then we migrated the client to another monitoring platform.

What needs improvement?

Performance: When holding data for two years for 20 SQL Servers, the reporting becomes sluggish and unresponsive. Advise is to size the DB server behind Foglight correctly… more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Red Gate would be the winner!

If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?

Use to have very basic monitoring like PRTG, N-Able, Zabbix

What other advice do I have?

It will not fix nothing, you still have to be on expert level

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Red Gate SQLMONITOR IDERA Diagnostig Manager

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What is Quest Foglight for Databases?

Foglight identifies and resolves performance issues across your applications, databases and virtual environments. The Foglight family of products easily integrates with your existing tools, so you can monitor and analyze data from almost any source across your infrastructure and view it through a single interface with our customizable, unified monitoring platform

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