Sandhill Consultants Limited

Foglight

Proactively monitor the health and performance of all your database platforms with a robust database monitoring tool. With Foglight for Databases, DBAs gain unprecedented visibility across their database platforms. From one simple-to-use console, they can quickly diagnose and resolve emerging issues to prevent business interruption.

Features

• Deep diagnostics
• Query insights
• Drag and drop reporting
• Multi-dimensional SQL workload drilldowns
• Automated change tracking
• Statement-level wait-event analysis
• Alarm workflow
• Automatic instance recovery
• Easy Integration

Benefits

• Centralized database monitoring across on-premises, hosted systems and cloud databases
• Support for cloud databases
• Proactive issue resolution
• Alerts for deviations from normal metrics
• Diagnostics and alarm data viewable from any drilldown screen
• Custom views and reporting through DBA, manager and executive dashboards
• With Query Insights, allows for rapid resolutions

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

958829765315253

Contact

Andrew Carter
01476 568708
info@sandhill.co.uk

About your service

• Service categories:

  Application Development and Deployment

  Data management

  Database administration and development

  • Database Administration
  • Database Development and Optimization
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: Can work in conjunction with cloud and traditional databases, along with products like Quest's Shareplex as a DBA's toolkit
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: Only available on Windows and Linux
• System requirements:
  • CPU - 4-way 2.4 GHz 64-bit CPUs
  • RAM 12GB
  • Storage 120 GB, 10000 RPM hard disk or better

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: https://support.quest.com/essentials/sr-severity-levels-response-times ; The vendor provides 24 x 7 support
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: Quest Software has indeed been involved in evaluating user satisfaction with assistive technology. One such assessment tool they’ve used is the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology (QUEST). This instrument gauges a patient’s contentment with various assistive devices, considering factors like dimensions, weight, adjustments, safety, durability, simplicity of use, comfort, and effectiveness. Additionally, it assesses service-related aspects such as delivery, repairs, professionalism, and follow-up service
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: https://support.quest.com/essentials/sr-severity-levels-response-times
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Full education and training quick start programs
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: When a Foglight contract ends, users must proactively extract their data, as Quest will delete it upon contract termination. Foglight provides several mechanisms to do this. Through the web-based dashboard, users can export tables, charts, and reports in formats such as CSV, Excel, XML, or PDF. For more detailed or bulk historical data, the fglcmd command-line tool allows metric queries and scripted exports of performance metrics. In cloud-hosted Foglight (Foglight Cloud), users can also leverage OpenTelemetry integration to export metrics to external systems, ensuring continuous archiving of monitoring data. Scheduled and custom reports should be run and exported ahead of contract end to retain key operational insights.
• End-of-contract process: At the end of a Foglight contract, all customer data hosted by Quest, including historical metrics, dashboards, and reports, is deleted completely. Users must proactively export any critical data via the web dashboard (CSV, Excel, XML, PDF), the fglcmd command-line tool for bulk metric extraction, or, in Foglight Cloud, via OpenTelemetry integration to retain monitoring history. Customers should coordinate with Quest support to confirm deletion timelines and ensure a smooth offboarding process.; ; The contract price typically includes access to the Foglight SaaS platform, core monitoring of databases, servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud services, standard dashboards, alerts, reports, and basic support according to the SLA. Subscription fees cover platform maintenance, software updates, security patches, and hosting infrastructure.; ; Additional costs may include optional modules or add-ons such as advanced analytics features, AI-driven diagnostics (Foglight Alarms AI, if not included in base subscription), premium support or consultancy services, integrations with third-party tools, or increased data retention beyond the standard allocation. Any custom professional services for deployment, configuration, or extended reporting capabilities are typically billed separately. Users should review the service agreement to confirm which features are included in the subscription and which require extra charges to avoid unexpected costs.
• Documentation accessibility standard: EN 301 549

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: EN 301 549
• Description of service interface: The Foglight service interface is a web-based, browser-accessible dashboard that provides real-time monitoring, analytics, and alerts for databases, servers, virtual machines, and cloud environments. Users can view customizable dashboards, drill down into performance metrics, and access AI-driven insights (Alarms AI) for root-cause analysis. The interface supports role-based access, integrates with APIs for automation, and allows configuration of alerts, reports, and historical trend analysis. It is designed for IT operations and DBAs, enabling proactive issue detection, guided troubleshooting, and simplified management of hybrid and cloud-hosted infrastructures.
• Accessibility standards: EN 301 549
• Accessibility testing: Based on publicly available information, Foglight by Quest Software does not appear to have undergone formal user testing with assistive technologies. While the web-based interface supports standard browsers and claims alignment with accessibility standards like WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549 in marketplace listings, there is no documented evidence of testing with screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, or other assistive tools.; ; Foglight’s PDF report outputs are explicitly noted as non-ADA-compliant by default, lacking features like tagged PDFs or alternative text, with accessibility improvements listed only as enhancement requests. No accessibility conformance reports, user-testing results, or testimonials from users with disabilities are publicly available.; ; In practice, this suggests that while Foglight provides general web access and some compliance claims, assistive-technology support is limited or unverified. Buyers requiring accessibility for compliance or inclusivity should conduct their own testing or confirm with Quest whether accessible configurations or future enhancements are available.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Yes - https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/foglight/7.1.0/rest-api-reference-guide
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Customizable dashboards, reports, rules for alerting and integration for interoperability.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Foglight Cloud prevents one user’s activity from affecting others through multi-tenant isolation, ensuring each customer’s data and processing remain separate. The platform employs resource quotas and throttling to limit CPU, memory, and I/O usage per tenant. Hosted on elastic cloud infrastructure, Foglight can scale compute and storage dynamically to handle demand spikes. Monitoring tasks, alerts, and reports are queued and scheduled to maintain predictable performance. Combined with service-level agreements (SLAs) for uptime and performance, these mechanisms guarantee consistent service, so one user’s workload does not degrade the experience for others.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Some limited usage data is available in Foglight
• Reporting types: Reports on request
• Resource tagging: Yes
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Quest Software Inc

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Staff screening not performed
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: CSV, Excel, PDF and XML
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • Excel
  • PDF
  • XML
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: Any scripting language with standard output

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Provider will make commercially reasonable efforts to make the SaaS Software available twenty-four hours a day, seven days; a week except for scheduled maintenance, the installation of updates, those factors that are beyond the reasonable control of Provider,; Customer’s failure to meet any minimum system requirements communicated to Customer by Provider, and any breach of this Agreement by; Customer that impacts the availability of the SaaS Software. Provider shall provide reasonable advance notice to Customer of any scheduled; maintenance. Provider can limit or suspend Customer’s access to the SaaS Software if it is sufficiently probable that the continued use of the; SaaS Software may result in harm to the SaaS Software, other Provider customers, or the rights of third parties in such a way that immediate; action is required to avoid damages or Customer is in breach of the Agreement. If circumstances allow and if reasonably practicable, Provider will give Customer notice so that Customer may seek to promptly avoid the issue and avoid suspension.
• Approach to resilience: Extensive replication error checking and handling. Multiple queues ensure that data is not lost
• Outage reporting: Email alerts. Public dashboard in roadmap.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Foglight supports user roles and groups helps achieve access restrictions
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication: Other
• Description of management access authentication: Foglight supports external user authentication through either, LDAP, SAML, or Windows SSO. Multi-factor authentication can be configured in the SAML identity provider.

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: No audit information available
• Access to supplier activity audit information: No audit information available
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: https://www.quest.com/docs/information-security-policy-legal-131273.pdf
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: All changes are raised via the support ticketing system, Zendesk, and will be added into the development tracking system. Code changes are implemented with build script - we do use automated deployment tools for code movement and roll-backs from our beta, staging and live environments. Changes are approved by Development and Product Manager before being pushed.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Vulnerability scanning tool generates reports, tested against a known database of issues. Rule sets use common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE), center for internet security (CIS) Operating System configuration benchmarks, and security best practices. High and Medium issues resolved as quickly as possible. Low and Informational issues worked into the normal sprint plans. Security pack covers whole platform of solutions: - Intrusion Detection/Prevention and hosting of agents and manager within remote environment - Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM – Manage Engine EventLog Analyzer) - and the hosting of the agents and manager within the remote environment - Quarterly vulnerability testing.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: If the advanced security pack is chosen (on single tenant environments), we utilise an IDS/IPS tooling and all events are sent to a central management console, managed by DevOps team. The IPS software will remediate and block issues where they are found. Any alerts will quickly be responded to and remediated by the DevOps team, depending on criticality.
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Incident record is created in the Quality Log Incident Manager assigned to co-ordinate resolution and communications . Incident manager will work with the account manager to keep the customer informed. Issues will be escalated to Product Management and Development Management. Escalation beyond this is to the senior management team Customer is notified of the issue/incident and the plans to resolve it by the account manager. Development Manager will review the issue, any knock-on effects and devise the best fix method Change management process follows attempts at resolving the issue. Incident Report completed afterwards detailing the cause, lessons learned.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Foglight for Cross Platform Databases and Infrastructure - 30 days trial available
• Link to free trial: https://www.quest.com/register/55612/ and https://www.quest.com/register/55511/

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 1%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 2.5%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 5%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 7.5%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 10%
• Over £5,000,001: 10%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Schellman Compliance, LLC
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Monday 11 August 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: The scope of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification is limited to the information security management system (ISMS) supporting the development, operations, and customer support services of Quest IT Shared Services as a Cloud Provider, in accordance with the statement of applicability, version 1.3, dated February 21, 2025, and aligned to meet the control implementation guidance and additional control sets of ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: NatWest Bank Tyl Safe Pay
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Monday 11 September 2023
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 4be819a2-f61d-48b6-b2cb-67fcb55231ab
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Cyber Essentials Alternative: None of the criteria
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • SOC2 Type II with ISAE 3000 (erwin Mart on Cloud)
  • SOC2 Type II with ISAE 3000 (Foglight Cloud)
  • SOC2 Type II (erwin DI Cloud)

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at info@sandhill.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.