Foglight for Databases Reviews (46)

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Foglight for Databases Reviews (46)

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Users consistently praise the product for its real-time monitoring and detailed insights into database performance, which help in quickly identifying issues. The ability to manage multiple databases from a single console enhances its usability for complex environments. However, some users note that the user interface can be complex, making it challenging for new users to navigate effectively.
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best DB monitoring tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?

Performance Tree, Real time activity, Blocking history and deadlock management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foglight for Databases?

I have not yet found. This is the perfect DB tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

Samrat M.
SM
Samrat M.
Data Integration / Datawarehousing Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Foglight : A real-time desktop/laptop side monitoring tool for remote servers"
5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy monitor your database and tuning the performance of your database"
4.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben L.
BL
Ben L.
New Jersey VMware User Group Leader
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great info for VMware environment "
4.5/5
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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jodi R.
JR
Jodi R.
Photographer
Photography
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"This just wasn't a good fit for us, but it's decent software"
3/5
What do you like best about Foglight for Databases?

It's great at monitoring performance and has a great alert system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Salman Q.
SQ
Salman Q.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Monitor the components which effects Product's performance."
4.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anish D.
AD
Anish D.
Business Analyst
Management Consulting
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Andy T.
AT
Andy T.
Director
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Foglight is our chosen monitoring software and capacity planning for all our customers servers"
4/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.