Quest Spotlight Reviews

I primarily use Spotlight for on-the-spot troubleshooting and alerting to see if there are any issues. The drill-down features allow me to pinpoint problems, whether they are indexing, long-running processes, or other performance issues.

Spotlight provides valuable features such as the ability to get alerted and drill down to a very granular level to find out where actual problems are coming from. The drill-down feature helps with isolation, root cause analysis, and determining next steps. 

It aids in preventing potential issues by allowing us to make correctable changes internally within SQL Server. When needed, it also helps address external influences affecting system design. 

Additionally, the historical data analysis is helpful for long-term capacity planning.

We use the tool for the design and development of public APIs. It is used in the first cycle of our API development. The product helps us to create APIs in the format that we are looking for and use those specifications in our API documentation. 

We have experienced easiness in API designing. The product offers a good UI where a person who knows open API specifications can do drag-and-drop functions. The tool has accelerated our API development. It has also enabled automation for our customers. 

We use it in our company, and it is used daily. It is primarily for standard monitoring of the databases and various aspects of performance tuning.

We are using its latest version.

Its dashboards are most valuable. The drill-down of the dashboards is useful.

We primarily use the solution for monitoring databases.

The time monitoring is a very useful feature. The solution is also very useful for analyzing if you have a problem. It's free to see via graphics varying times in order to analyze a problem.

The alerting process, ease of setup and configuration are certainly valuable to us, as they keep us informed of the environment when things are running well – but the real strength of SpotLight w/PA is the ability to go back in time to find exactly what was causing an issue (or the pre-emptively highlight anomalies that may become issues in the future). The ability to fine-tune different alert levels, and to have it page the appropriate group for critical issues makes this product a vital part of our support structure.

The IT and Engineer divisions rely upon the product to analyze existing issues, and QA code changes. This application suite provides us with three different focus points: Customer Support uses it to maintain awareness of current systems-state. Information Technology uses it to understand and track system-level issues, as well as capacity planning, growth forecasting, and 24 hour text alerts of Critical issues. The Engineering team uses it to review impacts of code-changes, and for performance-tuning. Spotlight is the Jenkon single-point monitoring tool.