Dynatrace vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

"Dynatrace's documentation is great. I love the university."

"Through end-user monitoring, we were able to measure the user's perceived performance and build an SLA based on that information."

"We can report and monitor on specific use cases which could not be monitored with SAP or other tooling."

"Technical support has always been quick to respond."

"Capability to focus on root cause problems."

"The stability is rock solid. We put a lot of stress on it."

"It has created total transparency between technology and business on all aspects of systems and performance as well as being a proxy for network performance through user experience monitoring. This followed a major performance degradation of our primary frontline system, which highlighted inadequacy of infrastructure focus tools, e.g., Nagios and Zabbix. It helped detect and remediate several performance issues on systems on both vendor supplied packages as well as in-house developed systems. It also improved InfraOps and development teams understanding of system behaviour and performance characteristics."

"Whether it is the server, database, network, or application, Dynatrace provides a consistent unambiguous view of performance."

"The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results."

"Over all in my organization, this product helped us to maintain health, risk and efficiency of the virtual infrastructure."

"We have no hard figures on the ROI on this product, however having the system has saved us time in terms of debugging and getting to the root cause of issues."

"Excellent monitoring capability and business service views"

"Foglight has been our go to monitoring tool for several years in the DB2 and Oracle space."

"This level of viewable monitoring had many benefits such as alerting, scalability, reporting and service dashboard we could promote."

"It was easy and saved costs."

"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."

"The product could be faster and lighter, especially the rich client which uses many resources."

"It still has a long way to go to reach that single pane of glass."

"Improvements in Synthetic monitoring would be great. Certain features of thick client, if available in the web interface, would also be a great improvement."

"We have had problems with our middle layer application implementation."

"It needs .NET core support to the level of Java."

"Dynatrace itself is a very good platform where the UI interface is very simple and usable, but I would say if it were made even more simple, similar to our Splunk dashboard, that could help users or newer users understand it more easily, especially since sometimes I have seen when using Dynatrace, we are not able to add the time frame properly."

"The new Managed Edition is too complex. I feel like a fish out of water."

"They've leveraged those security gateways and renamed them ActiveGates, and now there are different web plugins we can run on it... Sometimes the development of those seems to be running very fast and it's not complete. They don't yet function quite as easily as the OneAgents do. But I have hopes that that's going to get better. We have tried the MQ, the Citrix, and the Oracle ActiveGate plugins. They could be sharper. It's the right direction to go. It just seems like it could be smoother."

"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."

"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features."

"South African skill is scarce"

"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."

"My only complaint from Foglight for monitoring is that you only get a plot for five minute average for metrics like CPU and Memory, on the application side I can see metrics more quickly at 15 seconds for metrics like active sessions, heap. I would like to see the same for CPU and memory."

"Stability was always an issue in large environments."

"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."

"We had issues with deployment in the beginning until we had an expert guide us through the process."

"We purchased a subscription for one year and it is an expensive solution for a large enterprise like ours."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was a pretty straightforward process. We had no hiccups."

"Dynatrace is the most expensive APM that we sell, compared to competitors' products. The license pricing could be improved. My customers pay for licensing yearly."

"Look at the product and the product features, not the price. Too often people look at the price and turn away. Dynatrace costs a little bit more than the other products I researched, but it can do far more.​"

"We are buying more licenses, because we are seeing more value."

"The cost is somewhat high."

"The price could be improved."

"There is time savings. People's times have been cut in half using this solution because we were previously doing a lot of that manual work. Now, it's a lot more automated, and the data is just there."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

"The price is expensive for us."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."