--- 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) ![Suraj B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suraj B.") SB Suraj B. Systems management Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/17/2020 "Best tool for SQL databases monitoring particularly Oracle and Microsoft SQL lot of database metrics" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases: Perfect tool for database monitoring and performance analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly resolved databases performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Amit K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amit K.") AK Amit K. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/11/2020 "I have had very good experience working with Foglight Tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Foglight for Databases? Ability to give detailed insights and metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases? It is infra heavy and needs maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases: Recommended for application monitoring and transaction monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 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 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2020 "Go Ahead for Database Management" 4/5 What do you like best about Foglight for Databases? Easy configuration of alerting. Customized configuration and ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases? Costing of the product and huge implementation time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Foglight for Databases: Go for it if you don't have cost impact and customized configurations required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Natalee B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Natalee B.") NB Natalee B. Senior Programmer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/9/2019 "Foglight Review" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sean T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sean T.") ST Sean T. Senior Programmer Outsourcing/Offshoring Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/16/2019 "Foglight tool review" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Thomas K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thomas K.") TK Thomas K. Senior Programmer Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/28/2019 "Foglight Reviews" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you? Database server monitoring. Great tool to fix the potential sql issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Saket M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Saket M.") SM Saket M. Senior Programmer Outsourcing/Offshoring Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/5/2019 "Foglight Review" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JG James G. Support Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/19/2019 "Useful tool for managing infrastructure" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 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 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/5/2018 "Fog light review" 4/5 What do you like best about Foglight for Databases? Great software for monitoring production servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases? Sometimes not accurate enough. It’s a great tool for monitoring server health. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you? Great tool for monitoring server and it’s health Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anish D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anish D.") AD Anish D. Business Analyst Management Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/2/2016 "Dell-Foglight" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated 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 event networking and matchmaking tools reduce agenda setup complexity with location and topic filtering?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-event-networking-and-matchmaking-tools-reduce-agenda-setup-complexity-with-location-and-topic-filtering)[Leading webinar services for startups](https://www.g2.com/discussions/leading-webinar-services-for-startups)[What handwritten notes tools are highest rated for individual users and small teams that need a simple, personal touch in outreach?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-handwritten-notes-tools-are-highest-rated-for-individual-users-and-small-teams-that-need-a-simple-personal-touch-in-outreach) [What enterprise capital project management tools are best for tracking budgets, commitments and approvals across a large portfolio of simultaneous construction or infrastructure projects?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-enterprise-capital-project-management-tools-are-best-for-tracking-budgets-commitments-and-approvals-across-a-large-portfolio-of-simultaneous-construction-or-infrastructure-projects%20)[Best tools for managing data consent and preferences](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-tools-for-managing-data-consent-and-preferences)[Best tool for analyzing customer conversations](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-tool-for-analyzing-customer-conversations) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)