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Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise

Monitor and optimize SQL Server database performance from any device. Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise delivers simplicity without compromise by providing unmatched SQL Server monitoring, diagnosis and optimization of your database environment to ensure peak performance around the clock.
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
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SQL Server environments are becoming more complex while remaining a critical component of your application architecture. It’s a struggle to keep up with this continual growth without the right SQL monitoring tools. What if you could proactively manage your SQL Server environment and diagnose database performance issues by viewing the health of all your SQL Server instances on a single screen, anytime, anywhere on any device? You can with the right SQL Server monitoring tool.

With Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise, you can manage your SQL Server environment while also gaining visibility into your operating system – Windows or Linux – and also monitor your virtualization infrastructure. Make configuration a breeze with templates, automated alerts and customizable actions. Spend less time fighting fires by accurately diagnosing real-time and historical database performance issues, and focus on more proactive measures like query tuning.

Key benefits

Simplicity without compromise

Quick installation and simple configuration let you start monitoring environments immediately.

End-to-end monitoring

Get a complete picture of everything that affects your SQL Server performance

Features

24x7 monitoring and diagnostics

Agentless monitoring from a centralized diagnostic server with alarms for performance deviations

Powerful root cause analysis

Create multiple diagnostic workflows, including detailed workload analysis and deadlock detection

Incident playback

Rewind dashboards and diagnostic drilldowns to incident occurrence and review it in slow motion

SQL analysis and Xpert tuning

SQL Optimizer integration highlights long-running queries and sub-optimal code for further tuning

Health check and intelligence

Obtain a holistic view of the health of your system and benchmark results with other users

Customize for your environment

Set custom thresholds, create counters and establish rule-based actions on a one-time or recurring basis

Tour

Prioritize at a Glance
Intuitive Dashboards
Monitor and diagnose
Wait Stat Analysis
Workload Analysis
Replication Dashboard
Analysis Services
Prioritize at a Glance

Prioritize at a Glance

Our Heatmap prioritizes at a glance across all monitored instances.

Resources

Datasheet

Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise Edition

Diagnose SQL Server performance issues quickly and accurately for a healthy database infrastructure
E-book

The Essential Playbook for Optimized SQL Server Management

Discover the essentials of optimizing SQL Server management in your organization. Read our e-book to learn how successful datab...
White Paper

The Real World of the Database Administrator: How DBAs Like You Are Managing Their Data.

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E-book

The Fundamental Guide to SQL Query Optimization

5 tips, using copy-and-paste SQL Server examples, to improve SQL Server performance.
E-book

An Expert Guide to SQL Server Performance Tuning

Learn SQL Server performance tuning tips from industry experts Brent Ozar, Pinal Dave and Janis Griffin.
Case Study

Global asset management group monitors dozens of SQL Server instances with Spotlight® by Quest®

Financial group uses Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise to capture and replay history of database resource consumption in easy-...
Technical Brief

Go Beyond Basic Up/Down Monitoring with Spotlight on SQL Server

Extend the value of SCOM and go beyond basic up and down performance monitoring with Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise.
White Paper

Empowering Everyone to Bring the Right Data to Every Decision Datasheet

While data is a priority, several ongoing challenges prevent organizations from achieving their data-centric goals. Data empow...

Support and services

Product Support

Self-service tools will help you to install, configure and troubleshoot your product.

Support Offerings

Find the right level of support to accommodate the unique needs of your organization.