Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] Reviews

Name: Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]
Brand: Quest Software
Rating: 4.0 (22 reviews)

Vendor: Quest Software

4.0 out of 5

22 reviews
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What is Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]?

Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Featured Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] reviews

Anton Kasimov

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You can choose this product if you want to connect Java (or .NET) to database monitoring, because you can see the application’s different activities on the same screen. This is our solution, which works as a framework in the Foglight interface, and changes the color of the geo-tags depending on the object status.

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it_user494202

Pre-Sales DBA SQL Server Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I’m a DBA for a big e-commerce site. Foglight quickly helped us reduce the amount of money lost. Its module history query increased DBA efficiency. 90% of the time, we couldn’t catch problems in real time. This module helped us with that. One night at 01:00, we had several customers’ purchase attempts time out, and result in a half-hour outage. Foglight stored the bad queries and we quickly identified the bad code that locked the main database. We corrected it with the developer team.

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it_user387300

Foglight Specialist with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are able to view infrastructure through a single pane of glass and are able to build services and SLA Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me. Application Monitoring. We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is…

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Valuable Features

"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."

Room for Improvement

"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"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."
"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."