Foglight for Databases Reviews

Navigating through the environment overview makes it more suitable to have a quick summary of what is happening on the hosts and clusters. The ability to host multiple VMs to be monitored on a single console makes it easy to navigate multiple environment monitoring servers and apps. The Alarm module does its best job where you can have a report on the physical disk.

The Dash board is complex and doesn't have a simple GUI. Navigating can be difficult if you are not trained to use the product.

It helps to monitor all our

It helps you to quickly identify or pinpoint the issue that is critical to business

It does not support big data like hadoop, vertica, etc.

Identifying slow running queries.

Monitoring is good reduced false alert, and can be used for server, database, URL, network monitoring.

Tool is bit lengthy and customisation take time.

Great monitoring and ticketing tool.

Customised for URL and monitoring cloud servers.

How it discover all by itself. Just put some details and you are done.

It’s pretty much complex to understand at the beginning

Now I have better visibility for mi infrastructure.

Foglight’s Transaction dna feature is very helpful for performance analysis and finding infrastructure dependencies.

There is nothing to dislike about this tool. We just need to properly understand all features.

It helps in making good performance applications and also helps in reducing overall IT cost. Foglight is one of the finest tools available.

Its tracks every activity on DB specially oracle db.

And it also gives alerting mechanisms to enact on time to avoid problems.

Complexity in configuration and trouble shooting options.

It was able to perform synthetic transaction monitoring seamlessly. We can create our dashboard according to the customer requirements and also can see all the metrics.

Customisation was bit difficult as I was not expert at this time in script . That was my bad. Now when I compare with other tools I feel that tool is best.

I were using for large client and we're doing the maximum parameters for the servers whatever is required.

The number options it provides for monitoring, ease of use & customization that you can add to it.

Nothing that I disliked, but as many products comes with their own limitations the foglight missed some key monitoring metrics which I feel important specially while monitoring OLTP systems.

Improve the UI experience with more added features & customization in alerting.

Database monitoring, alerting & reporting.

In terms of health check in realtime basis and database diagnosting capabilities on a database level like blockings, deadlocks and other database related issue.

On a reatime setup, The administration side is not consistent, some of the instances has no PA installed

In a daily basis

The variety of aspects that you can monitor, (Databases,OS, Hybrid Clouds, HW), over different plataforms.

The capacity to present a great amount of information sintetized in a user friendly way.

Capacity to represent historical data.

For some medium and small size, the cost could be a factor that do not evaluate or use the product.