I often get asked about monitoring SQL workload that is consuming a database instance’s resources. The first question that comes to my mind is, “What is the symptom you are trying to resolve?” Are you...
Spotlight’s vast alarm customization capabilities enables users a wide variety of options. Setting alarm severity levels, their start and end threshold values, or disabling them completely are just a...
Spotlight notifies DBAs of performance issues via triggered alarm messages. More importantly, specific actions can be taken based on these alarms, by configuring the Alarm Actions feature of Spotlight...
Spotlight on SQL Server provides excellent real-time monitoring, workload analytics and more for SQL Server. You can download the complete software for a 30-day trail on as many systems as you'd like...
It never gets old hearing about how Quest Performance Monitoring solutions offer actionable insight to mission-critical systems. Upon visiting a customer for a 'health check' of their environment, we ...
Recently, I presented our Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise solution to someone who expressed concerns about being notified of problems in the monitored environment. In this person's scenario, he men...
In April of 2016, upon engaging with a customer, we learned that the DBA team for the hospital managed an environment of over 70 SQLServer instances and had trouble keeping up with the ‘fires’ and rea...
Customizing and Automating Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise Reports In my previous post, I wrote about configuring and executing reports using Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. The purpose of thi...
I'm surprised by the number of people that aren't aware that our Spotlight Performance Monitoring tool provides a tremendous number of reports. I suspect this is because we do not create the Spotlight...
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise‘s main purpose in life is to inform you of SQL Server performance problems, and then give you a quick way to diagnose their root causes so you can take action quickl...
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise 11.6 is here! So what’s new? Spotlight introduces Federation architecture A Spotlight Client can now monitor connections from multiple Spotlight Diagnostic Servers i...
I very frequently come across DBA's that that are either overwhelmed with the complexity of their organizations enterprise monitoring platform, or underwhelmed with its out of the box monitoring and d...
