--- title: Foglight for Databases Reviews meta\_title: 'Foglight for Databases Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 46 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Foglight for Databases works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 46 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Monitoring url: https://www.g2.com/categories/monitoring --- # Foglight for Databases Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Foglight for Databases but has limited features. Are you part of the Foglight for Databases team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Quest Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/quest-software) Discussions [Foglight for Databases Community](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Bennett Klein Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 21 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Datadog](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Datadog") Datadog 4.4/5(726) ](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) [ ![Dynatrace](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dynatrace") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews) [ ![Zabbix](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Zabbix") Zabbix 4.3/5(209) ](https://www.g2.com/products/zabbix/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 46 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) SN Stephen N. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/17/2020 "Out of date and behind the game" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Foglight for Databases? Account services/customer success pays a lot of attention to its customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/27/2017 "Older product, easily replaced" 1.5/5 What do you like best about Foglight for Databases? It had a fairly easy-to-use dashboarding feature for end-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you? None that I'm aware of Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Daniel S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daniel S.") DS Daniel S. Software Developer Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/30/2016 "An armoured tank. " 2/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases: Try a combination of less robust monitoring products before trying foglight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Foglight for Databases? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Foglight for Databases ](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Foglight for Databases used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-foglight-for-databases-used-for) ![Suraj B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suraj B.") SB Suraj Bhoyar • Last activity about 6 years ago Anyone did integration of foglight with ServiceNow ? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/28216-anyone-did-integration-of-foglight-with-servicenow) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 21 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/foglight-for-databases/pricing) Foglight for Databases Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_c187e6c1bbb9a4803ee45796976507f8/database-observability.png "Product Avatar Image") SolarWinds Database... 4.5/5(231) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/foglight-for-databases-vs-database-observability) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_044cfbf6c03d107e5357e29e95fd9136/dynatrace.png "Product Avatar Image") Dynatrace 4.5/5(1,366) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/dynatrace-vs-foglight-for-databases) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_91bcb2c063fcfb0a82dfedcf1a6463d1/splunk-enterprise.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Splunk Enterprise 4.3/5(434) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/foglight-for-databases-vs-splunk-enterprise) ##### Categories on G2 [Database Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-monitoring)[Server Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-monitoring) ##### Explore More [Which school management software covers attendance, grades, tuition, and parent communication most completely in one platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-school-management-software-covers-attendance-grades-tuition-and-parent-communication-most-completely-in-one-platform)[Which food safety management platforms are most reliable based on verified reviews from established business users?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-food-safety-management-platforms-are-most-reliable-based-on-verified-reviews-from-established-business-users)[Which affiliate marketing platforms are reliable enough that a growing mid-market program can scale to hundreds of partners without things breaking?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-affiliate-marketing-platforms-are-reliable-enough-that-a-growing-mid-market-program-can-scale-to-hundreds-of-partners-without-things-breaking) [Which AI support agent software delivers the highest CSAT scores?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-ai-support-agent-software-delivers-the-highest-csat-scores)[Which survey tools let you send out surveys by email, web link and SMS so you can reach respondents wherever they are?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-survey-tools-let-you-send-out-surveys-by-email-web-link-and-sms-so-you-can-reach-respondents-wherever-they-are)[Which productivity bot tools are worth exploring for an HR team that wants to automate onboarding task sequences, policy acknowledgments and new hire check-ins at scale?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-productivity-bot-tools-are-worth-exploring-for-an-hr-team-that-wants-to-automate-onboarding-task-sequences-policy-acknowledgments-and-new-hire-check-ins-at-scale) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)