dbWatch vs. Spotlight

dbWatch

5 Reviews and Ratings

Spotlight

14 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
dbWatch	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	According to the vendor, dbWatch is a complete and scalable database monitoring solution, helping enterprises monitor and manage any number of SQLServer and Oracle database servers efficiently. dbWatch also supports Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase. The vendor promises that dbWatch will give companies total control over all aspects of operation, performance, analytics and resource usage. Additionally, the vendor claims that dbWatch will have the total overview companies need in order to…	$350 5-9 instances
Spotlight	Score 5.7 out of 10	N/A	Spotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.	N/A

Pricing

dbWatch

Spotlight

Editions & Modules

MariaDB/Sybase: $350
5-9 instances
MS-SQL/PostgreSQL: $425
5-9 instances
MS-SQL Server/Oracle: $600
5-9 instances

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
dbWatch	Spotlight
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	dbWatch	Spotlight
Top Pros	Pro Ssl certification Pro Sql server Pro Ease of use	Pro Drill down Pro Able to drill Pro Sql server
Top Cons	Minus Virtual servers Minus Testing new Minus Mobile application	Minus Not cheap Minus Pricing model

Features

dbWatch

Spotlight

SQL Performance Monitoring

Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	dbWatch - Ratings	Spotlight 7.7 3 Ratings 8% below category average
Performance dashboard	00 Ratings	8.83 Ratings
Intelligent alerting	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Top SQL	00 Ratings	6.62 Ratings
Historical trend data	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Virtualization support	00 Ratings	7.02 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	dbWatch	Spotlight
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10	Redgate SQL Monitor Score 8.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	dbWatch	Spotlight
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	8.4 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	dbWatch	Spotlight
Likelihood to Recommend	dbWatch It's very fabulous with the support of Oracle and MySQL servers. Excellent with getting real-time health reports. Magnificent with auto-discovery of database servers. Intuitive and intuitive UI. Incentivized madhuri tiwari System Administrator Read full review	Quest Spotlight is great when you need a tool to give a quick look at a SQL server as a whole. It gives you the ability to see a lot of things, which can be vital in diagnosing problems or identifying stressors. Less great is the open-end of some of the diagnoses it makes, and things it identifies as "problems" (unless you love users coming to you and saying something like "Spotlight says there's a problem with our page latch!!!"). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	dbWatch It's a magnificent with getting health reports on our database. Excellent with monitoring our MS SQL server. Terrific with monitoring our database. Intuitive user dashboard. Incentivized madhuri tiwari System Administrator Read full review	Quest I love the main page that provides a color code list of all the servers so I know very quickly where to focus my attention first. I love how easy it is to configure new notifications. I love how easy it is to configure a new server to monitor. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	dbWatch It requires skilled personnel to configure. Efficient with database recovery and backup. Terrific with workflow management Incentivized usamah momin Software Developer Read full review	Quest Have not found any issues at this point. Incentivized KN Kathy Nahle Senior Enterprise Oracle DBA Read full review
Support Rating	dbWatch No answers on this topic	Quest Though our support needs have been minimal, we have gotten good responses when we have needed it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	dbWatch Super amazing for data visualization. Magnifying with monitoring database 24/7 which is automatic. Great with developing mobile applications. Incentivized Simon Andrew Web Developer Read full review	Quest I think Dell is better with its dashboard and ease of use, but SQL Sentry is better at customization. We used Spotlight at my previous company, and SQLSentry at my current company. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	dbWatch No answers on this topic	Quest We have not encountered any issues and continue to keep Spotlight's version current. Very simple to set up and add databases. The only thing that has to happen to the database is that a user ID needs to exist. Incentivized KN Kathy Nahle Senior Enterprise Oracle DBA Read full review
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