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What is Spotlight?
Spotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.
Spotlight is a great tool for insight into SQL Server
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What is Spotlight?
Spotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.
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Spotlight on Oracle has proven to be a valuable tool for users in monitoring and managing their Oracle Databases. By eliminating the need for running DBA Scripts or using Oracle's Enterprise Manager, this software simplifies server-related tasks and helps users be more proactive in supporting systems and applications. The interface of Spotlight on Oracle is highly regarded as the best monitoring tool on the market, providing insights into top sessions, top SQL, and CPU consumption, making it one of the best tools for monitoring Oracle databases.
DBAs have experienced reduced time spent on manual checks and verification of databases by using Spotlight on Oracle for critical SQL Server monitoring and management in production environments. Its time management capabilities have been beneficial for DBA teams in real-time monitoring of production and development instances. Additionally, the ability to rewind and see a snapshot of what was happening at the time of a problem occurrence has proved useful for identifying the cause of off-hours issues. While there is some concern that the Quest Foglight may replace Spotlight, users hope that this is not the case as they find Spotlight on Oracle to be a complex but convenient component for performance tuning SQL servers.
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(1-3 of 3)Spotlight is a great tool for insight into SQL Server
- Great SQL server monitoring
- Rewind and playback of previous times
- Some things like the "server health" ratings are tied to preset properties and are less useful if those are not important in your environment.
- It can be challenging to adjust thresholds to try to make alerting and status more accurate.
- Performance dashboard
- 90%9.0
- Intelligent alerting
- 80%8.0
- Top SQL
- 60%6.0
- Historical trend data
- 80%8.0
- Virtualization support
- 70%7.0
- Spotlight is reasonably inexpensive, and any one of the multiple things we use it for more than justifies the cost.
Spotlight Review
- The screen is color-coded, so when Red or Orange is displayed you are able to drill down into that setting and figure out what is going on.
- This tool also integrates with the OEM agents which will also have implemented.
- Spotlight also works great without RAC databases, able to view at the cluster level or drill down to instances and VM's.
- Have not found any issues at this point.
- Performance dashboard
- 80%8.0
- Intelligent alerting
- 80%8.0
- Top SQL
- 90%9.0
- Historical trend data
- N/AN/A
- Virtualization support
- N/AN/A
- 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.
Dell Spotlight
- 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.
- My only complaint was the cost.
- Performance dashboard
- 90%9.0
- Intelligent alerting
- 90%9.0
- Top SQL
- N/AN/A
- Historical trend data
- 70%7.0
- Virtualization support
- 90%9.0
- It had a positive impact in two main areas. First, it was easy for the DBA team to configure it to watch and alert on the most important instances. And second, it was very easy to provide clients read-only access to the dashboard so they could watch their servers as well, i.e. they weren't always pestering us for current status.