Quest Spotlight Reviews

Name: Quest Spotlight
Brand: Quest Software
Rating: 4.4 (4 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

4 reviews
100% willing to recommend

704 followers

What is Quest Spotlight?

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 #6 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 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 13% of all views.

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Database Development and Management

January 2025

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Seha R

Group Product Manager at Uop Ipl

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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it_user421638

Director of Information at Jenkon

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.

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reviewer1296948

Senior Solution Architect at Capita

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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Quest Spotlight mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Quest Spotlight in the Database Development and Management category stands at 7.7%, down from 8.6% 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."