With so many database monitoring systems on the market, deciding on an
enterprise monitoring solution (i.e., Datadog, AppDynamics or Dynatrace
replacement) might be challenging. Foglight® by Quest® provides you
with one tool for monitoring your entire data estate, fast identification and
analysis of the most time-consuming and frequently executed queries, and the
ability to customize views, dashboards, reports and alerts. Foglight is an ideal choice to replace many enterprise monitoring solutions because of its extensive breadth and its
deep-dive analytics, automations, and visualizations. Foglight enables
operations teams to contribute more strategically to digital transformation
initiatives by allowing them to manage their entire data environment in one
tool.
Questions you should ask enterprise monitoring solution alternatives
How does the monitoring solution accommodate the specific needs and scale of our enterprise environment?
How do you handle situations where performance is impacted due to unintended changes in the database configuration?
How does your solution identify and tune a query?
Short comparison
Feature
Foglight
Other Solutions
Query Analysis/Explain Plan
Multi-Dimensional Views – Realtime/Historical
X
Support multiple databases
Not many
Advanced Analytics – Change Tracking
X
Notification Channels & Alarms
Alarms Management
X
Top 3 reasons to select Foglight as an enterprise monitoring solution
A single solution for monitoring your
entire data ecosystem
– Foglight is a time-tested, heterogeneous database monitoring and
investigative tool. Foglight provides platform-specific intelligence for
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and other traditional relational
databases along with popular NoSQL platforms like MongoDB and Cassandra as
well as cloud data warehouses like Amazon Redshift and Snowflake. Eliminate
disparate tools with a single product that gives you single pane of glass
visibility and helps to diminish risks.
Quickly identify the root causes of
performance issues
– Foglight ranks and sorts queries by impact enabling you to rapidly
identify the root cause of a performance deviation in your application
environment. With Foglight, you can significantly reduce Mean Time to
Resolution (MTTR) by focusing on the specific queries causing performance
issues.
Adapt Foglight to your specific needs with custom views, dashboards, reports and alerts
– Foglight enables you to produce customized and shareable reports, views and dashboards that visualize the key performance indicators important to you about the monitored databases in your environment. You can also customize alert notifications to catch critical changes or deviations.