# Foglight for Databases Reviews **Vendor:** Quest Software **Category:** [Database Monitoring Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 46 ## About Foglight for Databases Offering a holistic approach to database monitoring, Quest's Foglight for Databases effectively merges and standardizes database performance monitoring across platforms regardless of their location—cloud or on-premise—including relational, non-relational, open-source, and cloud-only databases. Featuring deep diagnostic capabilities, organizations can proactively manage and tune both real-time and historical performance, while troubleshooting and enhancing the overall health of their database environment. ## Foglight for Databases Reviews ### 1. Foglight is ideal for both server and software monitoring. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to monitor all our VMs ### 2. Best tool for SQL databases monitoring particularly Oracle and Microsoft SQL lot of database metrics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suraj B. | Systems management Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Performance Investigator application to get the deep insight data about Database performance issues and it can also do os level monitoring as well each and every aspect of database monitoring metrics are covered in foglight **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight application server consumes lot of memory so if hosted on premises then hardware cost need to consider **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Perfect tool for database monitoring and performance analysis **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly resolved databases performance issues ### 3. Out of date and behind the game **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Account services/customer success pays a lot of attention to its customers. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** The product is behind the times, has a high learning curve, is difficult to maintain, and makes it awfully hard to do something simple with regard to process and log monitoring. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had production level monitoring and alerting with Foglight. This was the main benefit, along with historical records of past metrics. ### 4. Foglight as Enterprise Friendly Monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maynard C. | I.T Lecturer III - Part-Time, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** In terms of health check in realtime basis and database diagnosting capabilities on a database level like blockings, deadlocks and other database related issue. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** On a reatime setup, The administration side is not consistent, some of the instances has no PA installed **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a daily basis Foglight helps me a lot in terms of database monitoring and in capacity planning as part of preparatory task in provisioning new databases ### 5. Foglight is one of the finest tools available. It helps in monitoring of various applications. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar A. | Programmer Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight’s Transaction dna feature is very helpful for performance analysis and finding infrastructure dependencies. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** There is nothing to dislike about this tool. We just need to properly understand all features. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in making good performance applications and also helps in reducing overall IT cost. ### 6. I have had very good experience working with Foglight Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Ability to give detailed insights and metrics **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It is infra heavy and needs maintenance. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Recommended for application monitoring and transaction monitoring **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was able to perform synthetic transaction monitoring seamlessly. You can get a good dashboard, insights and metrics to your infra and application in a holistic view ### 7. Amazing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** I were using for large client and we're doing the maximum parameters for the servers whatever is required. ### 8. Foglight for DB monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Its tracks every activity on DB specially oracle db. And it also gives alerting mechanisms to enact on time to avoid problems. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Complexity in configuration and trouble shooting options. Less dashboards. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Please use this tool for better monitoring on your db. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solve many problems that could occur on db by proactively monitoring the system. Specially DB performances, DB availability and Custom monitorings etc. ### 9. Go Ahead for Database Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Easy configuration of alerting. Customized configuration and ease of use **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Costing of the product and huge implementation time. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Go for it if you don't have cost impact and customized configurations required. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy monitoring by alerting method and notifying. Configuring .Net code for notifying to external API calls. ### 10. Foglight is one of great monitoring tools I have worked with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** The number options it provides for monitoring, ease of use & customization that you can add to it. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Improve the UI experience with more added features & customization in alerting. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database monitoring, alerting & reporting. ### 11. Foglight Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natalee B. | Senior Programmer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** - Overview(Dashboard) - Display all required information in a effective manner. It helps knowing each and every activity instantly from one place. - SQL-PI (Performance Hierarchy) - One of the nice features to identify the most time taking query or sql batch. It also helps in knowing the sql queries currently blocking and query contributing to the deadlocks. - Real time Activity - It helps in knowing what is going on with your DB server at real time. - Graphical Representation - Charts look really nice and user friendly. They also have abilty to zoom in. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight had some recent issues of logging the incorrect data or the issues in displaying the historical data incorrectly. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Foglight is an unique tool to monitor database server health and locating any performance issues in your code. I must recommend this tool for evryone. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Foglight is most reliable tool. We run to foglight everytime for any production related issues to identify what is causing the problem. ### 12. Experience with Foglight Monitoring **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** 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. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** For some medium and small size, the cost could be a factor that do not evaluate or use the product. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** NA **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Huge and diverse IT infraestructure monitoring ### 13. Fog light **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** How it discover all by itself. Just put some details and you are done. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It’s pretty much complex to understand at the beginning **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now I have better visibility for mi infrastructure. And much more details when I need to troubleshoot ### 14. Foglight tool review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean T. | Senior Programmer, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Sends alert on any dabase related issue like memory shortage, deadlocks etc. Display the most intensive database queries to figure out potentila issues in database queries. Ability to host multiple database server on one foglight server. Display historical data in a particular time span which helps investigate issues occurred in past. Catogerized alarms like fatal, critical and warning to short the issues where immediate action is required. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight run slow sometimes and take time in login more than usual . It also had some issues related to displaying correct data recently. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Foglight is one of the most reliable tool to indentify the root cause of any production issues.I must recommend it to everyone. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the key tool to identify database issues in real time. It also offeres sql execution plans to help fix the missing indexes. ### 15. I do Foglight Presales and postsales **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It helps you to quickly identify or pinpoint the issue that is critical to business **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It does not support big data like hadoop, vertica, etc. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying slow running queries. Realized that queries can still optimized ### 16. Good monitoring tool for physical and cloud infrastructure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Monitoring is good reduced false alert, and can be used for server, database, URL, network monitoring. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Tool is bit lengthy and customisation take time. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Great monitoring and ticketing tool. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customised for URL and monitoring cloud servers. ### 17. Foglight Reviews **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas K. | Senior Programmer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Features like Sql PI, Workload, Real time activity are nice features. Top 10 performance tree is great in analysing the time taking queries. Ability to generate the sql plan for queries online is cool. Current database size analysis to know the size requirements in advance. Real time activity screens gives an idea of what going on the database server in real time. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight sometime becomes unresponsive when CPU load is increased on the database server. It also does not record the real time data of recent changes done on the database server like increasing disk size etc. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Foglight is a last resort in fixing many performance issue in sql queries and also to know the activities like sql jobs and tasks ongoing on the database server. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database server monitoring. Great tool to fix the potential sql issues. ### 18. Foglight Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saket M. | Senior Programmer, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight enable us to monitor our database server in real time. Workload and CPU usage are nice features we look frequently. It is easier to look at a past transaction during a specific time frame. Foglight also generate query plans for query optimizations. You can run multiple instances of foglight for better display of different sections. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It has some issues when Database server is very busy during peak network. Sends invalid alerts sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Very useful tool for time critical production application. We have fixed multiple performance issues using this tool. Must to have. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use foglight for out database monitoring in production and also to analyse the time consuming sql queries. ### 19. Useful tool for managing infrastructure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James G. | Support Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** We use this to monitor our AWS servers on some of our backend systems, which works very well **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** The compatibility with Hyper-V is not nearly as robust as with VMWare, which is not too big of an issue for our environment but can occasionally be difficult. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this to monitor our AWS servers on a few of our backend systems, primarily infrastructure used for our department ### 20. Must for every large application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shipra K. | Programer Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** SQL PI, Performance Tree,Deadlock and blocking history are best features that gives controls of all activity running on DB server. DB alarms and reports are also good features. It will always alert you when Deadlocks starts in DB. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** No feature to display all related queries of a particular user action in application. Dashboard does not show the all required activities. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Must for mission critical application. It will always alert you before the issue occurs. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application production and performance monitoring. ### 21. Fog light review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Great software for monitoring production servers **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Sometimes not accurate enough. It’s a great tool for monitoring server health. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great tool for monitoring server and it’s health ### 22. Best DB monitoring tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Performance Tree, Real time activity, Blocking history and deadlock management. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** I have not yet found. This is the perfect DB tool. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database monitoring and performance. ### 23. Older product, easily replaced **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It had a fairly easy-to-use dashboarding feature for end-users. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It mostly took output from scripts, logs, etc and graphed them. We spent several months and 3rd-party consultants to integrate it with our monitoring system, but never would work. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** None that I'm aware of ### 24. Foglight : A real-time desktop/laptop side monitoring tool for remote servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samrat M. | Data Integration / Datawarehousing Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** I have used Foglight for Windows based servers (typically Oracle EPM services are on these with an OBIEE or SmartView front end for reporting) and traditional Linux/Unix platforms and both versions have exceeded my expectations in terms of its instant alerting capability with a visual interface unlike any other server monitoring application. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** To be honest, very little to dislike as it also tells you which processes (including its details, ports being used etc) are causing a resource contention in the server. However, while it serves to report this information consistently well, the capability to remediate the problem through the tool itself is a bit limited. However, this is not a major negative as most monitoring tools (free or paid software) need the remediation outside of the tool. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** We have tried using Oracle Enterprise Manager for server resources monitoring but found that the alerting capabilities on Foglight to be far better. We switched on to FogLight since. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application stability, timely reporting of resource contention while using this tool helped keep business continuity and confidence on the existing on premise applications consistently high. ### 25. Easy monitor your database and tuning the performance of your database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** with the help of foglight, you can focus more on tuning your database. It can quickly identify and resolve performance issues of Oracle database. The consumption this software is less than other database monitor software. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** The price is depend on the core of your database servers. So for the enterprises which own a large amount of small databases or in RAC infrastructure, the cost may be a considerable issue. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** The GUI interface is clear, but it will also cause the problem that most of the users of foglight will miss the valuable knowledge of database by just pick and click. It can monitor all most all things you as a DBA care about. Before foglight, we have consider about spotlight which is also a product of Dell. But at last we choose foglight cause it can provide more information about Oracle database and server. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** For automatically monitor the database and the server. There is still a software add-on for performance tuning, which is helpful for us to find out the problems of the SQL in production and make a better performance. ### 26. Great info for VMware environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben L. | New Jersey VMware User Group Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Was great at righting out where problems were occurring, when to expect to add resources, etc **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It's a beast of a product and sometimes finding what you're looking for was though. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** This tool compares with vROps & Turbonomic, but can give info on the underlying hardware as well. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to be pro-active instead of reactive, knowing well in advance when we'll need to add hosts. ### 27. This just wasn't a good fit for us, but it's decent software **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jodi R. | Photographer, Photography, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It's great at monitoring performance and has a great alert system. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** This is an expensive product, couple that with that fact that it is time consuming and moderately difficult to get running and you have software that just isn't good for smaller companies. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** If you don't mind the cost and have the time and resources to get it going, it can be a great tool. If you are a small business this may not work for you. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Foglight is a great tool to find issues in your systems, such as performance, degradation, and to get robust reports on this issues. ### 28. Monitor the components which effects Product's performance. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salman Q. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** the best thing about this product i like most is "Real-time email and alerts" because it provides some really good help to fix problems and issues on time. Even most tools provide reports to some extent but this tools have some nice interface for history reporting. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Cost is expensive. But with the features we get things sort out. I will recommend please train your technical team on it before using it so that investment on this can bring maximum return. Little improvement in customization modules is needed. Currently available system works perfectly but improvement will add more power to it. If you have no issue with cost you gonna like it. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Usually there are many tools available. One works better for . NET one's performance is fabulous with JAVA. But believe me foglight is best across multiple technologies. It helped out little company to create a better user experience. Even there is a lot improvemts required in Customization. But the available one are still best to serve their needs. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have very better history reporting. we can respond to errors in lesser time. and yes it helped us in increasing our revenues. ### 29. Dell-Foglight **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anish D. | Business Analyst, Management Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** This is great end user monitoring tool that helps capturing both performance and content for every transaction by each and every user. It provides great facility to replay what user has gone through during his web session which greatly helps in detecting problem areas and troubleshoot defects. Also, it collects full data from network and browser which is useful in tracking user activity, keyboard/ mouse and navigation events. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** This is tough to learn by naive users and organisation need to provide sessions before starting with it. It is good for large organisations where there are large web application in productions and to monitor and analyse them is a daily hectic task. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** This is good web monitoring tool for large organisations that provides end to end analysis results which helps on troubleshooting and providing good solutions. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We as a service company provides web services to clients and we try to ensure that we have properly tested them for bug free product delivered to client which is high in quality. Also, we provide maintenance of our already released old services for web clients. ### 30. Foglight is our chosen monitoring software and capacity planning for all our customers servers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy T. | Director, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** As we host a number of customer servers and databases, Foglight is a great monitoring tool to alert us for performance degradation and capacity planning, this allows us immediate alerting to our support team as well as our customers. Foglight has become our support teams first point of call for any reported performance issues. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It took a while to to get everything configured and setup, the networking confirmation isn't as straight forward as we had hoped, and the user interface is a bit unfriendly to use and could do with a redesign. There are too many different variations of the Foglight product which makes it difficult to configure and expensive to cover all systems. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Foglight made monitoring our customers software and hardware much easier, it is very stable software, which can reliable monitor and alert before any disasters. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a single monitoring system that could monitor all our customers servers and provide instant alerting, as well as provide capacity planning. Foglight allowed us to do this with additional benefits of database monitoring, without the need to monitor foglight itself as it is a very robust piece of software. ### 31. Everything you want at your fingertips **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob L. | System Administrator, Food Production, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Whilst vSphere vCenter does give you alerts and performance metrics, it's up to you to make sense of it. This is where Foglight steps in. Foglight is brilliant in the way it helps you understand your environment. It can point out performance concerns quite quickly such as high CPU wait times, memory ballooning, wasted disk space from orphaned VMDK's and zombie VM's. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** We are currently using Foglight for Virtualization Standard. Unfortunately this product has been discontinued and the only option now is Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise which is more expensive. This is a negative, as even though Enterprise is much more advanced, Standard fit our needs much better. One other thing to note is that Standard requires Java for some functions, however Enterprise is complete Java-free. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** We are using Standard, which is no longer available. Enterprise is great, however, you need a fairly specific use case and environment size to use it. If not, the return on investment may not be likely. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Foglight to pinpoint performance issues and bottlenecks, as well as minimize waste. The reporting functionality is quite good and we can even schedule cleanups. We have saved a fairly large chunk of time by seeing all this information in a single pane of glass and then being able to act on it easily and effectively. ### 32. We we able to instantly monitor and get alerted for SQL load with Foglight for SQL Server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight for SQL Server is a great way to monitor load on multiple SQL Servers in one place, giving comparisons of load between servers and instant colour coded alerts, with drill downs for each Performance Indicator making it great for helping diagnose possible issues. It is also great for planning HDD Capacity for SQL Databases by monitoring history of Database sizes. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It took a while to get the Server and clients installed correctly, and to understand how to get things working, this was partly down to how the software needed to connect to each other over networks which had firewalls between them. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** We solved many issues with foglight, including issues we didn't know we had before it became a disaster, I would recommend at least trialling this software. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a central way to easily monitor and diagnose load issues on our SQL Servers, with the option of expanding to Oracle and MySQL ### 33. Foglight- Virtualization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shaifali G. | Quality Assurance Associate, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It provides ease in configuring VM and helps analysing VM heath with its performance analysis tool so that we can know and solve the problem with VM as soon as it comes. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Its performance with one CPU and ability for hypervision across CPU core is not too good which affects performance. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** You can use foglight for providing VM solution and for satisfying different needs with less hardware. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuring and providing VMs with different OS for testing and use on different platforms. Providing VMs with different kind of software each ready to use as soon as required by user according to tseting needs. ### 34. Foglight for Visualization - Recommended! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It supports a lot of different hypervisors: vmware, openstack, KVM, and others. The big difference between this one and its competitors are the capability of bringing together application, infrastructure and database performance statistics in a single view. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Initially there were many options that now are discontinued. We really liked the Standard product, that is now not available. The Enterprise edition is somewhat more costly, with many options that are not that important, for example, the Synthetic transactions capabilities. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** I recommend Foglight to the users that can make use of all the capabilities it offers, in order to get value for the price. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to diagnose problems arising and to provide more information about the transactions. ### 35. WE can watch the performance instantly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damian Eliel A. | Ayudante de cátedra (Algoritmos y Estructura de datos II), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** In Foglight we like the ability to log on and review history, as well as real time emails and alerts for DBAs to resolve the issues. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns to be particularly intuitive. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Its really expensive. Its also difficult the servers setup, and the user interface could be better. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** If cost isnt your problem, the just go for it. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted an easy way of monitoring loading issues on servers. It has minimized induced downtimes ### 36. What the Dell is going on here? A lot. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles C. | Logistics, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Capture the experience of users interacting with key applications. Pinpoint the root cause of incidents so you can fix problems fast. Improve user satisfaction and ensure the IT environment supports the needs of the organization. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Theres not much I can say I dislike per se. If I'm nitpicking, I can always say theres an easier way to really use this effective as a beginner but nothing major has ever been issue. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Gain a unified view of storage performance and application utilization through the virtualization layer to the physical disk spindle. Monitor and manage the performance of your underlying physical storage as well as the capacity and topology metrics to ensure the best possible virtual infrastructure performance. This is a great product for all that I've already mentioned and I can go on if I had more time lol. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimizing the configuration, performance and utilization of my hypervisors and guest virtual machines, as well as the applications utilizing them. Capitalizing on extensive real-time monitoring, capacity planning and reporting capabilities for informed decision making. ### 37. Foglight On-Premise **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Curtis R. | Solutions Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** What I like best about Foglight is its ability to be extended via WCF (Not Windows WCF) to add functionality that isn't available out of the box. This is actually surprisingly easy and straight forward to do and allows you to grow the solution to fit your needs. In addition to this, its ability to run multiple Foglight Management Servers and then federate the results of these to a Federation server allows you to separate your workloads logically and group permissions and resources more effectively. Finally, its ability to script synthetic transactions and then deploys these to Foglight Agent Mangers dispersed around the world (Azure, AWS Regions, Etc) makes it really easy to see the performance of your site from the perspective of real users and detect slow portions of your processes. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** With large amounts of infrastructure, you have to do a great deal of tuning to ensure the interface remains performant. It is not uncommon to log into an FMS or the Federation server to find a loading spinner that doesn't seem to want to go away. For best results, run these on Linux instances, if you're going to use virtual hardware, be sure to dedicate resources and properly tune your JVM settings based on recommendations from Dell regarding the size of your anticipated environment/workload. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** If installing on-premise, be sure to spend time up front understanding the size of your infrastructure and the necessary server footprint for Foglight to function in a performant way. Use linux systems for your FMS servers and dedicate resources if VM's. If including cloud based applications in addition to on-premise, be sure to configure Foglight Agent Managers in the same cloud location and then allow those to communicate back to your on-premise. This will improve performance greatly. By all means, take advantage of the Synthetic transactions cabilities and setup FAMs to house these in cloud providers in the regions your users are located. This will help you understand global performance of your application for your most common processes (logins, account updates, carts/purchases, etc). **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** This solution enabled us to monitor all of our applications and their underlying infrastructure components. The was achieved by the systems ability to group applications into what are known as Foglight "Services" and then define the various components of the applications along with the rule-sets needed to determine the overall health of the service. By doing this, we were able to group and roll-up applications into categories and expose dashboards denoting the health of these categories with various degrees of detail to specific users based on their need to see more or less details. Management and colleagues could see the overall health of high-level services, while service managers could see deep details into their particular services, while admins and developers could dive much deeper into the inner workings of the applications/systems and see all events and take actions. ### 38. An armoured tank. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel S. | Software Developer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight is a limitless monitoring platform, fully extensible with custom cartridges for every case and platform. It can do network, application, OS, database, even user simulations. Its dashboard elements are beautiful, and it's fully manageable from its web-based front end. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Foglight is a beast. Nothing is simple or painless. The only good use case for Foglight is one where the target criteria is complex. If you are looking to monitor network, OS, database, or use standard monitoring protocols like SNMP, WMI, or even custom SOAP monitoring calls, then Foglight is more horsepower than you need and I would recommend against it. Also its dashboards, while beautiful, are not fully customizable. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Try a combination of less robust monitoring products before trying foglight. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring that our main ERP was functioning, and user experience was nominal. Our ERP front end had status indicators, but we were obstructed from querying the status directly. So we used foglight to simulate a user log in, and navigation to the status screen. Foglight was able to read the visual status indicators and record the values. We got a time series performance picture that was not thought of by the ERP's designers. That was pretty great. ### 39. Dell Foglight is great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaime L. R. | Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** It is an awesome platform for viewing and analyzing all sorts of data for the use of apps **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** It is a little too business oriented and spartan. It could be made to appear more user friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** It is a quality product for the analysis you need to find and target slowdowns in performance **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am mostly utilizing the ability to monitor java, the architecture, and pinpoint where slowdowns are occurring so as to vastly improve the performance of apps ### 40. Dell Foglight is a bright light **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Enforcement | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** I like best the ability to see geographically where things are slowing down so that issues can be identified quickly and be resolved **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** I dislike most the user interface, it is a little bit clunky and not the easiest to understand when you first begin using it. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Quality program to analyze and determine what is slowing things down **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the business problems involving various application architecture and other issues to identify where the problems are ### 41. foglight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany M. | Technical Support Specialist, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Manage a high volume and pace of change **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** I do not really see or have any dislikes **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** eliminating risks with mobile or cloud migrations and technology upgrades ### 42. Best Graphical Display.. Impressive piece of s/w **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** I like how Foglight shows the Graphics to show how the CPU, Memory and IO is taking place and where is the Latency. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** Its not that I don't like, but this tends to get slow at times and it will based on the amount of detail it shows. Not bad at all. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** This is a great piece of software with neat interface and very user friendly. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working as a Database Administrator and this helps me keep track of my hardware and keep them on track. ### 43. Foglight :Light to Performance Insights **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dhanilan m. | Chief Executive Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Best enterprise suite for Performance Monitoring. Have all in depth features for analysing Web Applications **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** User Interface to look more intuitive. Larger fonts **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Enterprise customers will definitely be benefitted **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bigger enterprise needs better monitoring than some opensource monitoring solutions. Apart , it gives the Dashboard statistics very clearly ### 44. Dell Virtualization Management FogLight **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** This is one of the best, most cost effective performance monitoring solution out there. **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** With the latest release, Dell update the product with a more granular virtual data collection sampling rate. This can come extremely useful, although the feature also come with an increase data storage usage cost. **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** Dell has given the Foglight an extra oomph to virtualization management ecosystem. Regardless the drawbacks, this is the best server virtualization to date. **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Virtualization Management in a snap ### 45. Great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** Ensure a positive end-user experience by eliminating downtime and resolving problems faster **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** i dislike that it is little bit difficult to oprearte **Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases:** i would recommend others to use this product.Very nice **What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?** User Experience Monitoring –Capture both performance and content of every click by every user ### 46. Learner of Foglight **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?** best user experience monitoring with better gui and interface. It can tackle big data analytics **What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?** I did not hate anything atmost as I started learning this. 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