Foglight for Databases Reviews & Product Details

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

Discussions

Foglight for Databases Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Bennett Klein

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

21 months

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User Insights

Average based on 46 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Foglight for Databases Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 01, 2026

What is Foglight for Databases, and what problem is it built to solve?

Foglight for Databases is used to monitor database health and performance, helping teams spot issues and investigate their causes. Users describe using it for real-time alerts, query analysis, and historical performance troubleshooting.

What company sizes and industries is Foglight for Databases the best fit for?

Positive experiences cluster most among enterprise organizations and users in information technology and services. Mid-market companies and financial-services teams are also represented.

Enterprise: the strongest company-size cluster.
Mid-market: another notable company-size segment.
Information technology and services: the most prominent industry cluster.
Financial services: a recurring industry segment.

How long does it take to implement Foglight for Databases across a team?

Implementation timelines vary, with one to three months the most common reported range and under a month close behind.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
1–3 months	Most common
Under 1 month	Nearly as common
Under 1 day	Less common
3–6 months	Less common
6–12 months	Less common

What customer support options does Foglight for Databases provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support is available through email/help desk and chat, as well as phone support with a 24/7 live representative. The support experience is mixed: users value attentive customer-success contact, while support ratings vary.

What features or capabilities could make Foglight for Databases even more useful?

A more approachable interface could make Foglight for Databases easier to learn and navigate, and more flexible dashboards could help teams tailor what they see.

Simplify navigation and make the interface easier for new users to understand.
Improve dashboard customization so teams can surface the activities and details they need.

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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 an 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 in real-time.

- Graphical Representation - Charts look really nice and user-friendly. They also have the ability 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 a unique tool to monitor database server health and locate any performance issues in your code. I must recommend this tool for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Foglight for Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

Foglight is the most reliable tool. We run to Foglight every time for any production-related issues to identify what is causing the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/21/2020

"Experience with Foglight Monitoring"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?

The variety of aspects that you can monitor, (Databases, OS, Hybrid Clouds, HW), over different platforms. The capacity to present a great amount of information synthesized in a user-friendly way. Capacity to represent historical data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/3/2020

"Fog light"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?

How it discover all by itself. Just put some details and you are done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?

It’s pretty much complex to understand at the beginning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 database-related issue like memory shortage, deadlocks, etc. Displays the most intensive database queries to figure out potential issues in database queries. Ability to host multiple database servers on one Foglight server. Displays historical data in a particular time span which helps investigate issues that occurred in the past. Categorized alarms like fatal, critical, and warning to sort the issues where immediate action is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?

Foglight runs slow sometimes and takes more time to log in 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 tools to identify 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 tools to identify database issues in real time. It also offers SQL execution plans to help fix the missing indexes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I do Foglight Presales and postsales"

5/5

What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?

It helps you to quickly identify or pinpoint the issue that is critical to business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?

It does not support big data like hadoop, vertica, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/3/2020

"Good monitoring tool for physical and cloud infrastructure."

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?

Tool is bit lengthy and customisation take time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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 enables us to monitor our database server in real time. Workload and CPU usage are nice features we look at frequently. It is easier to look at a past transaction during a specific time frame. Foglight also generates 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 the 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 applications. We have fixed multiple performance issues using this tool. Must 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 our database monitoring in production and also to analyze the time-consuming SQL queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

Shipra K.

Programer Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/17/2018

"Must for every large application"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.