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APM: What is it? What's the value?
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Foglight is the premier solution for application monitoring across multiple technologies (e.g. Java, .NET, virtual or physical servers, databases, networks, etc.) and capturing the experience of users interacting with those applications. Leading organizations all over the globe use Foglight to improve user satisfaction and ensure the IT environment supports the needs of the organization. Foglight also helps you find the root cause of every business-impacting incident, so you can fix problems fast.
Whether you are deploying application performance monitoring (APM) software for the first time, or using it to fill a monitoring gap, Foglight’s modular design and pricing can help your organization align and grow with the needs of the business and its end users. Foglight simplifies APM to help you:
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Foglight manages the user experience from multiple perspectives allowing you to manage performance SLAs by detecting, isolating and resolving response time issues, and capturing and replaying real user interactions to understand how application design and configuration are affecting them. In addition, Foglight monitors and analyzes transaction conversions and session meta-data to uncover new buying patterns, preferences and determine why users abandoned transactions.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs by simplifying management of the application server, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics support everything from the most widely used platforms to the most unique.
Foglight database monitoring tools provide simplified, consistent performance monitoring and management across heterogeneous database platforms, helping you reduce administrative costs and improve service levels.
Reduce hardware costs and diagnose/fix problems faster with deep visibility into VMware ESXi and Hyper-V performance management issues. Our solution for virtual server monitoring and capacity management provides powerful virtual infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, service management and chargeback.
Improve service quality and reduce service disruptions through the creation of service level agreement (SLA) policies using data based on performance, availability and change from across your IT environment. Our SLA monitoring solution feeds crucial application and service management information into your existing framework.
Minimize wasted time and chaos associated with sudden network problems with full visibility of your network resources and their metrics – including hardware, operating systems, virtualization, databases, middleware, applications and services. Our network management system makes it easy.
Deliver unparalleled application performance by monitoring the health of your middleware environment and resolving incidents before they become an issue for your business. With Foglight for IBM WebSphere MQ, you can deliver consistent and strong application performance at established service levels to meet Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) initiatives.
Provide consistent management for all diverse operating systems by monitoring the infrastructure that supports your critical applications from every perspective, including operating systems, networks, virtual servers and virtual machines. Our infrastructure monitoring solution helps you link all the disparate parts of your IT environment as one centralized platform.
Virtual desktop technologies are a big change for organizations accustomed to physical desktops. Diagnosing performance and availability issues can be challenging; until now, there have been few monitoring and diagnostics products for virtual desktop environments. Foglight for Virtual Desktops brings powerful diagnostics and rich visualization to Quest’s market-leading Workspace Desktop Virtualization (formerly vWorkspace) solution.
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When it comes to your organization’s Cisco infrastructure, downtime is not an option. Our network management system gives you the ability to monitor Cisco NetFlow traffic, providing visibility into application and network usage, network productivity and utilization of network resources, and the impact of changes to the network.
Simplify database performance monitoring and management with the Quest Software portfolio of DB2 performance monitoring solutions. These solutions allow you to establish consistent visibility across your heterogeneous database environments, deliver deep insight into transaction analysis, and diagnose problems in real time.
When it comes to your organization’s Exchange Server, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for Exchange give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Microsoft Exchange environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s HP infrastructure, downtime is not an option. Our network management system gives you the ability to monitor HP sFlow traffic, providing visibility into application and network usage, network productivity and utilization of network resources, and the impact of changes to the network.
When it comes to your organization’s Java applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for Java give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Java environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s Juniper Networks infrastructure, downtime is not an option. Our network management system gives you the ability to monitor Juniper J-Flow traffic, providing visibility into application and network usage, network productivity and utilization of network resources, and the impact of changes to the network.
When it comes to your organization’s .NET applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for .NET give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your .NET environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
Simplify database performance monitoring and management with the Quest Software portfolio of Oracle performance monitoring solutions. These solutions allow you to establish consistent visibility across your heterogeneous database environments, deliver deep insight into transaction analysis, and diagnose problems in real time.
When it comes to your organization’s Oracle E-Business Suite applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Oracle E-Business Suite self-service applications, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s PeopleSoft applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for PeopleSoft give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your PeopleSoft environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s SAP applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for SAP give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your SAP environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s SharePoint infrastructure, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for SharePoint give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your SharePoint environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
When it comes to your organization’s Siebel CRM applications, downtime is not an option. Our performance monitoring solutions for Siebel give you the ability to detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting your Siebel environment, often before end users are affected. These solutions offer out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring continued uptime and optimal performance.
Simplify database performance monitoring and management with the Quest Software portfolio of SQL Server performance monitoring solutions. These solutions allow you to establish consistent visibility across your heterogeneous database environments, deliver deep insight into transaction analysis, and diagnose problems in real time.
Simplify database performance monitoring and management with the Quest Software portfolio of Sybase performance monitoring solutions. These solutions allow you to establish consistent visibility across your heterogeneous database environments and diagnose problems in real time. Quest performance monitoring and management for Sybase — it simply doesn't get any easier.
Easily monitor service definitions, their service level agreements (SLAs) and the state of SLA compliance. Our solution for performance SLA management delivers a customizable, role-based dashboard framework allowing you to add/remove monitored services. Plus, logical drill down allows you to navigate from a rollup SLA to an individual IT event that is associated with the service.
Get the visibility you need to manage real-user performance service level agreements (SLAs) in both traditional data center models (physical and virtual), or cloud-based models. Our solution for real user performance monitoring and triage capture every real-user web session so you can understand and optimize application performance, improve capacity and quickly diagnose problems.
Replay and analyze real end user interactions so you can quickly fix performance problems or adjust for market changes. Our solution for real user experience analysis and session replay captures every user session from three perspectives – including the business, IT and end-user perspective – giving you a 360-degree view of end user management.
Easily determine which end users are abandoning which transactions and why. Our solution for transaction conversion analytics allows you to observe the user experience through the eyes of the end user. You’ll not only understand where individuals users spent their time, you’ll also be able to determine what triggered a specific action, allowing you to make changes as needed to increase transaction conversions.
Simplify performance monitoring of custom and web-based applications, and significantly reduce mean-time-to-resolution of problems or incidents. Our solutions allow you to monitor virtually any Java or .NET application for performance issues – down to the offending line of code – so your team can fix problems before they affect end users.
Ensure availability of, and visibility into, your most critical applications. With our solutions for ERP/CRM applications, you can monitor and manage application service levels, assess the user experience and reduce the total cost of ownership. In addition, you can increase service levels at an application, geographical or enterprise level.
Detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange in both physical and virtual environments. Foglight offers unparalleled insight into these platforms through logical and architectural representations. Plus, out-of-the-box alerts with expert advice help you ensure uptime and optimize performance.
Foglight database performance monitoring not only ensures your database components are operating within their resource capacity limits, it provides alerts informing you when and where they are over-extended and how to correct such conditions.
Our Oracle workload analysis tool reveals even the most elusive and complicated bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
Foglight Performance Analysis for SQL Server lets you see determine the root-cause of performance deviations and identify changes to your SQL Server environment quickly and easily.
Foglight Performance Analysis measures and analyzes the transaction workload that connects users to resources, ensuring better management of database service levels.
Reduce the time and effort required to manage virtual machines. Our solution for virtual machine monitoring delivers built-in automation, workflow-based alert remediation and in-context administration, resulting in a significant reduction in time and effort required to manage virtual infrastructure – all from one downloadable application.
Accurately calculate chargeback costs and determine how IT management and business stakeholders will share expenses. It’s not only possible, but easy with our resource chargeback solution for virtual environments. This integrated solution is all you need to calculate costs so you can ensure costs can be recovered for services provided.
Easily determine available capacity and predict over- or under-use of available resources. Our integrated solution for virtual resource capacity management makes it easy. With vFoglight, you’ll see performance data for all levels of the virtual infrastructure, so you can see and predict how efficiently your capacity is being used.
Ensure SLA compliance, keep customers happy and retain cost savings you've achieved through virtualization. With vFoglight Storage, you can monitor and manage the performance of your underlying physical storage as well the capacity and topology metrics to ensure the best possible virtual infrastructure performance.
Get real-time and historical reporting of the health and compliance of service level agreements (SLAs), service level objectives (SLOs) and operational level agreements (OLAs). Our solution for SLA monitoring delivers this information through customizable, role-based dashboards, you can easily define and measure SLAs against historical goals.
Reduce sudden network problems and the ensuing wasted time and chaos that go with them. Our solution for network device monitoring delivers full visibility into your network resources and their metrics – all from one downloadable enterprise interface – ensuring the continued availability of your network.
Capture data for any device on your network including routers, switches, servers and desktops – and instantly identify which users and applications are consuming the most bandwidth.
Foglight NMS monitors remote networks using probes in locations that allow you not only to differentiate performance, but boost it ten-fold.
Monitor, alert, and report on the network's capacity to provide acceptable voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) call quality. With our solution for VoIP monitoring, you can ensure that introducing voice traffic onto the data network won’t degrade performance for either type of traffic. Foglight NMS collects such valuable parameters as jitter, packet loss, latency and MOS (mean opinion score).
Experience unparalleled visibility into traffic network patterns and determine how traffic impacts the health of the network. Foglight NMS delivers real-time packet capture, allowing you to drill down into applications and devices to identify the exact source of spikes and bursts, so you can take proper corrective actions.
Easily determine if your network is configured to meet optimum performance levels. Our solution for network configuration management can automatically back up, file and view configuration files – all in the same interface. In addition, you’ll be immediately alerted when any configuration has been changed.
Monitor network events, traffic, and conditions to establish a performance baseline to avoid false-positive alerts from normal network activity – and leverage out-of-the-box reports based on changes over time to anticipate future resource requirements.
Deliver unparalleled application performance by monitoring the health of your middleware environment. Our solution for WebSphere MQ monitoring gives you the ability to deliver consistent and strong application performance at established service levels to meet Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) initiatives.
Monitor and manage the operating system that underlies every application, database, network device and server running in your environment. With our solution for Unix, Linux and Windows OS monitoring, you can link disparate parts of your IT environment as one centralized platform, ensuring consistency across operating systems.
Detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting Active Directory in both physical and virtual environments. Foglight offers unparalleled insight into this platform through logical and architectural representations. Plus, out-of-the-box alerts with expert advice help you ensure uptime and optimize performance.
Foglight for Virtual Desktops brings powerful diagnostics and rich visualization to monitoring Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization hosted VDI and Terminal Server/ Remote Desktop Session Host (TS/RDSH) implementations. It goes well beyond merely alerting you to problems—it also provides analytics so you can identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
Minimize wasted time and chaos associated with sudden network problems. Our solution for network system monitoring and management delivers full visibility of your network resources and their metrics – including hardware, operating systems, virtualization, databases, middleware, applications and services – allowing you to fix problems immediately.
Foglight for DB2 not only ensures your database components are operating within their resource capacity limits, it provides alerts informing you when and where they are over-extended and how to correct such conditions.
Foglight Performance Analysis for DB2 measures and analyzes the transaction workload that connects users to resources, ensuring better management of database service levels.
Detect, diagnose and resolve problems affecting Exchange in both physical and virtual environments. Foglight offers unparalleled insight into this platform through logical and architectural representations. Plus, out-of-the-box alerts with expert advice help you ensure uptime and optimize performance.
Increase revenue and productivity by improving the quality of your end users’ application experience. Our solution for user experience management helps you achieve this by capturing every user session so you can replay real interactions, allowing you to pinpoint performance problems and fix them before they affect other users.
Ensure fast, uninterrupted database performance for end users and applications. Our solutions for database monitoring and diagnostics deliver the critical information you need to effectively manage your database environment and ensure continued availability. And when a problem does occur, you can identify the root cause and fix it before end users are affected.
Easily monitor your Windows environment. Our solutions deliver unparalleled insight into the state of Windows, making it easy for you to identify the root cause of problems, so you can fix them fast. Our solutions make it easy by providing out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice, allowing you to ensure uptime and optimize performance.
Experience unmatched visibility into your virtual environment. Our solution for virtual server monitoring and management not only delivers powerful virtual infrastructure monitoring, but also capacity planning, chargeback, service management capabilities, and Hyper-V and VMware management – all from a single, downloadable solution.
Ensure SLA compliance, keep customers happy and retain the cost savings you’ve achieved through virtualization. With vFoglight Storage, you can monitor and manage the performance of your underlying physical storage as well the capacity and topology metrics to ensure the best possible virtual infrastructure performance.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of Java applications.
Deliver unparalleled application performance by monitoring the health of your middleware environment and resolving incidents before they become an issue for your business. Our middleware monitoring solution delivers consistent and strong application performance at established service levels to meet Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) initiatives.
Easily monitor your Unix, Linux and Windows environments. Our solutions deliver unparalleled insight into the state of your environment, making it easy for you to identify the root cause of problems, so you can fix them fast. Our solutions make it easy by providing out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice, allowing you to ensure uptime and optimize performance.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of .NET applications.
Foglight for Oracle not only ensures your database components are operating within their resource capacity limits, it provides alerts informing you when and where they are over-extended and how to correct such conditions.
Foglight Performance Analysis for Oracle measures and analyzes the transaction workload that connects users to resources, ensuring better management of database service levels.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of Oracle E-Business Suite applications.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of PeopleSoft applications.
Ensure fast, uninterrupted database performance for end users and applications. Our solutions for database monitoring deliver the critical information you need to effectively manage your database environment and ensure continued availability. And when a problem does occur, you can identify the root cause and fix it before end users are affected.
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Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of SharePoint.
Resolve problems before they impact users and violate SLAs. Our solutions for application server monitoring and diagnostics simplify the management of the application, the user transactions running through it, and the underlying infrastructure – ensuring the best possible performance of Siebel.
Foglight for SQL Server not only ensures your database components are operating within their resource capacity limits, it provides alerts informing you when and where they are over-extended and how to correct such conditions.
Foglight Performance Analysis for SQL Server measures and analyzes the transaction workload that connects users to resources, ensuring better management of database service levels.
Foglight for Sybase not only ensures your database components are operating within their resource capacity limits, it provides alerts informing you when and where they are over-extended and how to correct such conditions.
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