We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."
"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager helps to control servers."
"It is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for managing database consolidation, something that has been missing and difficult to do."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager was straightforward."
"It's a useful feature to be able to see the top SQL, the number of executions, the CPU, and the resources that it's using."
"This solution allows us to quickly drill down when there are issues."
"The most valuable features are security and speed."
"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"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."
"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
"I would say mostly backup and recovery, through the Enterprise Manager. Or any corruptions, to be able to fix them through Enterprise Manager."
"The solution is not as simple as people say it is."
"The solution has a very large resource system. It's too big. There are too many items."
"The fact that Oracle Enterprise Manager is an expensive solution is a matter of concern and needs to be considered for improvement."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The tool is expensive."
"They should improve the hover text context. This would provide assistance whenever a task is attempted by a DBA."
"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."
"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."
"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."
"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
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Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 122 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Development and Management. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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I would recommend go with Enterprise manager as it will give you a more graphical view about performance.
Foglight is typical for sql queries whereas EM will give you OS performance too.
I have recently installed OEM 12c Cloud control and it has some cool features like ASH analysis and ADDM comparison to check to time-periods and compare how and where performance has changed.
If you need any assistance in setting up OEM 12C, I can help.
I never use OEM for PeopleSoft but I use FogLight for monitoring WebLogic. I think FogLight should make the dashboard easier.