Quest Spotlight's most valuable features include alerting processes, ease of setup, and configuration. Its ability to analyze historical data, fine-tune alert levels, and identify anomalies is crucial. Users appreciate the time monitoring and graphical analysis capabilities. Dashboards with drill-down functionality enhance root cause analysis and issue isolation. As a SaaS tool, it supports integration with GitHub, GitLab, and authentication measures. Historical data analysis aids in capacity planning and system design adjustments.
- "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."
- "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 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."
Quest Spotlight lacks compatibility with Hyper-V, insufficient mobile app functionality after upgrades, and inadequate pricing strategy. Users express a need for extended data storage, reporting capabilities, and dashboard customizations. The software does not support webhooks, advanced APIs, or specification versions. Users mention changes not consistently updating across models, insufficient local source control, and a lack of index analysis and execution plan utilization similar to competitors. Advanced specifications and webhook capabilities are absent.
- "One improvement could be the inclusion of suggestions for missing indexes or better analysis of how indexes are utilized and how execution plans are used, similar to what other products offer."
- "One improvement could be the inclusion of suggestions for missing indexes or better analysis of how indexes are utilized and how execution plans are used, similar to what other products offer."
- "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."
