What is the ideal SolarWinds alternative?
With so many products on the market for infrastructure monitoring, it can be
difficult to decide on a SolarWinds alternative. Foglight® by Quest®
provides visibility into and proactive monitoring of physical and virtual
environments, across multiple database platforms, and for added security.
Foglight’s extensive breadth, along with its deep-dive analytics
capabilities, automations and visualizations make it the ideal solution for
SolarWinds replacement. By enabling operations teams to proactively manage the
data environment, Foglight positions them to make a more strategic contribution
to digital transformation initiatives.
Questions you should ask SolarWinds
- What do you offer beyond network monitoring? What do you offer in regard to database monitoring?
- What are your tuning capabilities, and what tools can help with a database optimizer?
- Do you offer a multi-dimensional analysis and within a single view?
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
Feature
Foglight
SolarWinds
Multi-dimensional analysis
Change tracking & workload comparisons
X
Heatmap for rapid issue prioritization
X
Free out-of-box OS monitoring
X
Machine learning
Alarms, reports, customizations
Limited
Top 3 reasons to select Foglight as a SolarWinds alternative
- Single solution for relational, open-source, and NoSQL databases – Foglight encompasses over 20 years of development to provide platform-specific intelligence for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and other traditional relational databases along with popular NoSQL platforms like MongoDB and Cassandra.
- Supports multiple deployment models – As a SolarWinds alternative, Foglight monitors databases across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments from a single console. Cover a variety of IaaS and PaaS cloud environments, such as the Azure SQL Database family: Managed Instance, Single Database and Elastic Pools.
- One-stop product for your entire database ecosystem – Foglight is a time-tested, heterogenous database monitoring and investigative tool. Eliminate disparate tools with a single product that gives you single pane of glass visibility and helps to diminish risks.