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A Comparison of Spotlight Cloud and Foglight Cloud

Attention Spotlight® Cloud customers: See how you can get many of the capabilities you love – and more with the new Foglight® Cloud!

If you’ve enjoyed using Spotlight Cloud by Quest®, you’ll love our new offering: Foglight Cloud by Quest. It combines many of the best capabilities of Foglight, Spotlight Cloud and Spotlight Enterprise in one powerful solution, and offers extensive diagnostic capabilities and performance monitoring for databases (like SQL Server), servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud services.

Foglight Cloud exceeds Spotlight Cloud by providing:

  • Query insights
  • SQL Performance Investigator
  • Support for multiple domains/databases
  • Alarm workflow and templates
  • Infrastructure performance and availability monitoring
  • Wizard-driven installation
  • Cost optimization to save money, maximize performance and accurately predict costs
A Comparison of Spotlight Cloud and Foglight Cloud

Discover the advantages of switching from Spotlight Cloud to Foglight Cloud

With Foglight Cloud, reduce TCO, deep performance monitoring, and innovate & add value to your core business. Your team will easily overcome the challenges of managing the numerous and diverse database, cloud and virtualization platforms you’re required to support. No upgrades, CPUs, patches or hot-fixes to worry about – Foglight Cloud eliminates these and many other administrative tasks.

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Heatmap: Rapid issue prioritization

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Rich multi dimensional analysis

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Free out of the box OS monitoring

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Pre-configured alarms & reports

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Custom alarms

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Mobile App

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Heterogeneous

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Smart Adaptive Baseline

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Web Console

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Change Tracking

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Historical I/O Analysis

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Historical Lock Trees

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Instance-Level Comparisons

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Dimension-Level Comparisons

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Advisories

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Workload Activity Highlights

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SQL Server Jobs

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Replication

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Mirroring

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Always On

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Log Shipping

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In Memory OLTP

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TempDB

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Error Log Scanning

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Query Insights

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Agentless Architecture

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Elastic Pool Monitoring

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Reports

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Additional Monitored Databases

PostgreSQL

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MySQL

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MongoDB

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Cassandra

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Redshift

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SAP HANA

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Redis

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Snowflake

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Azure SQL DB

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Oracle

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Coming Soon

DB2

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Sybase

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Amazon DocumentDB

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