Dynatrace vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

"Technical support has always been quick to respond."

"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."

"Gives systems back-end visibility, allows for proactive monitoring, and improves the user's experience."

"Dynatrace has been better than the other tools that I have used in past."

"With the Agentless monitoring and ability to create custom plugins, we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution but a really good enterprise monitoring solution too."

"Dynatrace gives us and our clients information about all layers and components of their platform, including the most important starting point for us: real-time and historical end user experience."

"As an administrator for the AppMon servers, we see the benefits every day when we help business teams to figure out some of their problems, troubleshoot to root cause."

"With the Agent-less monitoring and ability to create custom plugins we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution, but a really good Enterprise Monitoring solution too which helps replace the need for other tools such as SCOM, OpenView, SiteScope, etc."

"Foglight is the best overall solution we use, but it doesn't do everything we need or doesn't provide the best solution to everything we want to monitor."

"Many other tools are capable, but IMO not as flexible or powerful except for particular applications."

"Foglight is an awesome tool and it is able to instrument and integrate easily with any monitoring tool."

"This level of viewable monitoring had many benefits such as alerting, scalability, reporting and service dashboard we could promote."

"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."

"The product has improved the way we respond to database issues as it has made us more proactive."

"Foglight Enterprise was the most scalable and easy to deploy tool."

"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."

"More customizable dashboards Better log search and retention features Easier tagging and permission management at scale Improved mobile app monitoring support reduction in costpricing"

"It is necessary to improve the integration with the product, Oracle Siebel."

"The initial setup was challenging for us. However, it was complex until you grasped the nuances of the product and the building blocks."

"We need extended support for some of the agents, the one-agent technologies under Managed. We've got some old legacy platforms that don't have one-agent support yet."

"Setting up the thresholds and alerting, it is complicated to understand their use cases."

"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."

"I'd like to see the UI a bit more polished. For example, I saw a demo of the dashboards here at the Perform 2018 conference. There was a table of these widgets, but they're not sorted alphabetically and there's, like, 50 of them. So if you want to find your widgets, you're of scrolling up and down. So small features, being able to search for widgets, that things are more categorized; just a bit more focused on the user experience."

"I need more experience, because I have not used the tool."

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

"Stability was always an issue in large environments."

"The upgrade process could use some fine tuning. I have done an upgrade of the system as well as addedupdated agents, and sometimes that process is a bit cumbersome, and does not go as planned."

"We have not realized a good ROI on the product due to the fact that we were not able to monitor our core application which runs on Webmethods."

"Complicated setup and maintenance."

"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."

"When we first turned on Foglight for the first time, it was like a fire hose."

"South African skill is scarce"

"They could improve their price ranges, as there is no option for startups or testing."

"We purchased a subscription for one year and it is an expensive solution for a large enterprise like ours."

"The product is superior to others, but it comes with a price tag that is often difficult to position back to clients."

"The solution has saved us money through the consolidation of tools. With a hybrid landscape, we had multiple tools. When we consolidated, we removed four or five other monitoring tools with one. For the last ROI calculation that I did, Dynatrace was saving us up to $500,000 per year."

"The product is definitely worth taking a look at. Be aware that it is probably more pricey than other options on the market, but there are a lot of capabilities. Dynatrace has an eye toward the future and the computing and monitoring needs that we are gonna need for the cloud. ​"

"Consider volume because that is where you will get the most benefit. Doing a point solution is not cost-effective."

"​Do a PoC and see if you like it."

"The limitations I see are more to do - and maybe it's because of the nature of the job I have - but they have to do with pricing. It's a little bit pricey. It's a very good tool. It's worth the price, to a certain degree. But it's hard to justify when it's that costly."

"The price is expensive for us."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."