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    Spotlight

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASpotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.N/A

    SmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASwagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub) by SmartBear is a platform for API design and documentation with OpenAPI. Whether it’s push generating an API’s design and code to source control hosts, deploying the API to API Management platforms, or triggering a Jenkins build, the solution boasts a host of integrations.

    $25

    per month per user

    Pricing
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Editions & Modules
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    Individual
    $25
    per month per user
    Team
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $59
    per month per user
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    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
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    Quest Software
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of Spotlight and SmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Feature
    Spotlight
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance dashboard8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Top SQL6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical trend data8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization support7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Spotlight and SmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Feature
    Spotlight
    -
    Ratings
    SmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    6% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SpotlightSmartBear Swagger Enterprise (formerly SwaggerHub)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Quest Software
    Spotlight’s ability to consolidate data from various entities and provide insightful reports is highly beneficial. It streamlines financial reporting, allowing professionals to focus on advisory services and strategic decision-making.Small businesses, nonprofits, and organizations that need regular board packs or executive summaries find Spotlight useful. Less Appropriate: Certain industries (e.g., specialized manufacturing, healthcare, or research) have unique reporting needs. Spotlight’s generic templates may not cover all industry-specific metrics or compliance requirements.
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    SmartBear
    ReadyAPI and SwaggerHub are a match made in heaven. Being able to so easily import the API directly into ReadyAPI and then being able to generate a test suite from the API is my favorite part of these softwares. We have rather large services so building out the API can take some time
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    Pros
    Quest Software
    • Great SQL server monitoring
    • Rewind and playback of previous times
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    SmartBear
    • Treating the design as documentation ensures that we have consistent and well defined APIs
    • API consumers can export the swagger definition or code stubs to use within their development environment
    • We can iterate through multiple versions of a definition privately before making a version publicly available
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Quest Software
    • My only complaint was the cost.
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    SmartBear
    • The user interface could be more improved to sustain with other similar tools in the market.
    • Beneficial if we have better integration with third party softwares.
    • Nice to have ability to download the documentation in usable formats.
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    Usability
    Quest Software
    the platform offers a clean, easy to use interface. You can customize reports and dashboard. Integration is also pretty good, you can integrate to Xero, QBO and MYOB and excel spreadsheets. It also offers very broad supporting documents and webinars. There are only two downside of Spotlight; learning curve (it could be a bit difficult at the beginning to learn the system) and price point (For small businesses, Spotlight Reporting can be seen as relatively expensive compared to other reporting tools)
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    SmartBear
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    Support Rating
    Quest Software
    I've never had to contact support, as of yet I have had no issues or problems with the tool. This is after 5 years of use.
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Quest Software
    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.
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    SmartBear
    The only other product we looked at was Postman. But we liked the SwaggerHub UI & the integrations it has with the AWS API gateway. Though Postman has some other great features like the ability to write test cases & execute them, SwaggerUI was more convenient to document & share them.
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    Return on Investment
    Quest Software
    • Spotlight is reasonably inexpensive, and any one of the multiple things we use it for more than justifies the cost.
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    SmartBear
    • Faster API development lifecycle.
    • Reduced discussion time when building a new vital API endpoint.
    • Complete documentation which makes the new team member onboarding process easier.
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    Screenshot of Faster, Standardized API Design