Quest Spotlight Reviews

Name: Quest Spotlight
Brand: Quest Software
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

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Quest Spotlight ensures peak performance around the clock with unmatched monitoring, diagnosis and optimization of SQL Server environments. Spotlight provides access to the details you need for optimal fitness of your SQL Server databases. Get overviews of health and performance, automated alerts and actions, and mobile device support.

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Quest Spotlight is the #5 ranked solution in top Database Development and Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Quest Spotlight an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Quest Spotlight is most commonly compared to Oracle Enterprise Manager: Quest Spotlight vs Oracle Enterprise Manager. Quest Spotlight is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 12% of all views.

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Database Development and Management

May 2024

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Seha R

Group Product Manager at Uop Ipl

Apr 6, 2023

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…

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Senior Solution Architect at Capita

Feb 20, 2022

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. Some customizations of the dashboard,…

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Director of Information at Jenkon

Apr 10, 2016

Jenkon is a Microsoft Partner, and we use Hyper-V as our virtualization base. This version of Spotlight provides additional information about “Virtualization Overhead”, but only for VMware (not Hyper-V). Also, a wonderful “extra” of the Spotlight environment, was the ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and receive alarms directly to our mobile devices – via the Mobile Spotlight App. Unfortunately, the App broke when we upgraded from version 9 to version 10. We have just participated in the live demonstration/training of the newest version of Spotlight (version 11.5). The good news is that both of these enhancements have been addressed in the latest version.

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Quest Spotlight market share

As of May 2024, the market share of Quest Spotlight in the Database Development and Management category stands at 7.8%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The tool is a SaaS product where I just need to type a URL and start with the design process. I can integrate all elements of source control like GitHub, GitLab, etc. The tool also supports authentication-related provisions like SSH."
"Its dashboards are most valuable. The drill-down of the dashboards is useful."
"I consider the solution very scalable."

Room for Improvement

"The software does not support webhooks. It doesn't support advanced versions of APIs. The tool also doesn't support advanced versions of specifications. The change that we do in one part of the model is not reflected throughout the specification. There are also some mutations in the clones. I am not able to do a local source control with the product as well."
"Some customizations of the dashboard, such as having backup reports, would be useful."
"There's no reporting with this tool, and there really should be. They should add that into future releases."