OpenText Real User Monitoring vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

OpenText and Quest Software are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 58% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

OpenText Real User Monitoring

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58% willing to recommend

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

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86% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Real User Monitoring

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (44th)

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Yasir Amin

Sr. Solution Architect, Project Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

User-level monitoring with near-real-time analytics boosts service availability

The use case is about user-level monitoring and the availability of a service for a user. It's about whether the service is available, its performance, and the type of errors a user is receiving, from a user perspective The functions that Real User Monitor is intended for, which is to provide the…

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Anton Kasimov

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

Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.

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. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Real User Monitor has improved our productivity."

"It is a good product."

"It offers near-real-time analytics, which is helpful."

"Real User Monitoring tools help proactively identify problems before they become critical by monitoring thresholds. There is a threshold and an SOA threshold."

"The most useful feature of this solution is tracking. When the application's traffic has been monitored it is taken from that particular application and analyzed. It is then given a live session of that particular user. For example, if you are using your bank application to do some kind of transaction, everything that you do can be tracked by that application."

"The Real User Monitor, with its transaction and synthetic transaction monitoring, is the typical classic in APM cases when the customer would like to do transaction monitoring. Micro Focus scores better where the underlying infrastructure management is also covered by Micro Focus tools."

"The reporting feature is good for us."

"With the solution, you can easily access any issues in your infrastructure."

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"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."

"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."

"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."

"Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."

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

"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."

"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"

"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."

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Cons

"The product needs more R&D to make it easier and more compatible with other software."

"The diagnostics perspective, particularly in terms of the root cause analysis of failures, should be improved."

"This technology is considered to be older."

"Customer support needs to improve by bringing in more people who are knowledgeable about the tool, as there are very few left."

"Some issues with login errors."

"The solution's technical support presents a lot of issues with too many delays."

"We would like to see support for non-Windows environments."

"One area to improve is the user interface, of course. The second one is their R&D has virtually stopped building a product roadmap."

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"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."

"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."

"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."

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

"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."

"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."

"The version compatibility needs work."

"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Not expensive."

"The price is approximately €30,000 ($35,500 USD) for the enterprise edition."

"Compared to other tools, OpenText Real User Monitoring is an expensive solution."

"If I compare with other vendors, other vendors are more expensive"

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

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

"The price is expensive for us."

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

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Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Micro Focus Real User Monitor?

The diagnostics perspective, particularly in terms of the root cause analysis of failures, should be improved. There needs to be more development in this area, as the support and the number of peop...

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I rate the solution as nine. It is a good product. Everyone should have it as it is essential today, but choose the vendor accordingly. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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Also Known As

Micro Focus Real User Monitor, Micro Focus RUM, HPE RUM

Foglight, Dell Foglight

Overview

Real User Monitoring (RUM) an End user monitoring that gives you visibility into user behavior for fast, targeted problem resolution. It monitors the performance and availability of business-critical application services for all users at all locations all the time. It automatically discovers underlying infrastructure and classifies user actions - giving you instant visibility into session and whole service health over web, cloud, and mobile user experience. It allows you to trace user experience across tiers, capture live sessions, see where customers clicked, measure response times, and see pages that caused problems. And you can easily capture and replay user sessions to create test scripts that reflect real user behavior. All this data gives you new ability to analyze which application transactions your users are performing and what application response they are experiencing. RUM currently supports over 20 application protocols and applications such as SAP, Citrix, and native mobile application monitoring on Android.

OpenText

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

Quest Software

Sample Customers

Avea, Maccabi Healthcare Services, TEB

Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com

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