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Atatus Database Monitoring vs Quest Spotlight

Both stand on database performance monitoring software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Atatus Database Monitoring

Paid Web

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Spotlight brings monitoring, diagnostics, and query-tuning tools together for database teams working with supported systems. The on-premises trial gives teams a way to evaluate it, while pricing and required access should be clarified before deployment.

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The facts

	Atatus Database Monitoring	Quest Spotlight
Free plan	No	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	Self-hosted, Windows
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	atatus.com	quest.com
On database performance monitoring software	#20 of 25	#16 of 25

Atatus Database Monitoring: what it does well

Quest Spotlight: what it does well

Agentless monitoring through a centralized diagnostic server
Incident playback, health checks, and root cause analysis
Query profiling, wait and lock analysis, and execution plans
Custom thresholds, counters, and rule-based actions
On-premises trial offered

What to know first

Pricing is available only on request
Diagnostic Server needs a SQL Server sysadmin account
Windows performance counter monitoring uses WMI queries
Spotlight Cloud ended on December 31, 2024

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