Foglight for Databases Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Foglight application server consumes lot of memory so if hosted on premises then hardware cost need to consider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Account services/customer success pays a lot of attention to its customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In terms of health check in realtime basis and database diagnosting capabilities on a database level like blockings, deadlocks and other database related issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On a realtime setup, The administration side is not consistent, some of the instances has no PA installed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Foglight’s Transaction dna feature is very helpful for performance analysis and finding infrastructure dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike about this tool. We just need to properly understand all features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to give detailed insights and metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is infra heavy and needs maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It tracks every activity on DB, especially Oracle DB. And it also provides alerting mechanisms to act on time to avoid problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complexity in configuration and troubleshooting options. Fewer dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy configuration of alerting. Customized configuration and ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costing of the product and huge implementation time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The number options it provides for monitoring, ease of use & customization that you can add to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.