Spotlight is a great tool for insight into SQL Server
February 21, 2020
Spotlight is a great tool for insight into SQL Server
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Spotlight
Spotlight provides a variety of insights into our SQL server. Used primarily in the IT department, it notifies us of stress on the server and allows users to help target specific processes contributing to that stress. It also allows us to rewind to the time a problem occurs and see a snapshot of what was happening, which is useful when trying to identify the cause of off-hours issues.
- 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.
- Spotlight is reasonably inexpensive, and any one of the multiple things we use it for more than justifies the cost.
Do you think Spotlight delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Spotlight's feature set?
Yes
Did Spotlight live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Spotlight go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Spotlight again?
Yes