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Spotlight Cloud Help Documentation
New Features
Now available in preview, monitor Azure SQL Databases in the cloud. No on-premise setup required. Heatmap, alarms and Spotlight overview page included.
Topics
Getting started (Spotlight Cloud in your organization)
Sign up for a Quest account
To monitor on-premise connections, install the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application
Requirements of the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server host
Add connections and configure them
Monitor connections in Spotlight Cloud
Getting started (people in your organization)
How to invite people to join your organization
How to accept an invitation to join an organization
How to manage your organization's account settings
How to decline an invitation or what to do if you accept an invitation by mistake
Your Quest account
Your profile
Billing and subscriptions
Look up your organization's Spotlight Cloud subscription details
Purchase Spotlight Cloud Professional
Purchase additional monitored instances for Spotlight Cloud Professional
Cancel your Spotlight Cloud Professional subscription
How to stop data uploads to Spotlight Cloud
Country of purchase
Sample data
People
Connections
Diagnostic Server
Health check settings
Product downloads
Frequently asked questions
Spotlight Cloud subscription / activation FAQ
Spotlight Cloud monitoring FAQ
Data handling and security
Data handling and security
Legal agreements and policies
Spotlight Cloud web site
Supported web browsers
Scheduled maintenance / Incident reports page
Notifications
Spotlight Cloud monitoring
Welcome to Spotlight Cloud monitoring
Heatmap page
Alarms
Alarms page
Alarms panel
Outstanding alarms
Alarms FAQ
Health check page
Spotlight overview pages
Drilldown pages
Charts and tables
Playback
Currently showing sample data
Time period
Navigate pages and connections
Diagnostic Server cannot be reached
Spotlight Cloud Reports
Alarms overview report
Alarms overview report
Connection view report
Alarm details report
Database growth report
Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Welcome to Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Heatmap in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Alarms
Alarm list in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Snooze alarms in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Acknowledge alarms in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Spotlight notifications on your mobile device
Connections display in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Spotlight overview pages in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Playback in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Settings
Settings in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Profile in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Refresh in Spotlight Cloud Mobile
Monitoring Azure SQL Database (Preview)
Azure SQL Database connections (Preview)
Azure SQL Database connection alarms
Monitoring SQL Server
SQL Server connections
SQL Server connection requirements
Add/Edit SQL Server connection details
Grant account permissions
Troubleshoot SQL Server connection failure
SQL Server alarms
SQL Server storage page
SQL Server sessions page
SQL Server jobs page
SQL Server TempDB usage page
SQL Server availability page
SQL Server health check page
SQL Server workload analyzer page
SQL Server I/O by file page
SQL Server 2017 and Unix/Linux hosted connections
Monitoring SQL Server replication
SQL Server replication connections
SQL Server replication alarms
Monitoring Windows Servers
Windows Server connections
Windows Server connection requirements
Add/edit Windows Server connection details
Troubleshoot Windows Server connection failure
WMI
Troubleshooting WMI
How to configure WMI with minimum required user permissions
How to limit the number of ports used by WMI
Windows Server alarms
Windows Server CPU page
Windows Server disks page
Windows Server memory page
Windows Server network page
Windows Server processes page
Windows Server services page
Monitoring VMware
VMware connections
VMware connection requirements
Add/edit VMware connection details
Troubleshoot VMware connection failure
VMware alarms
Spotlight overview page for VMware
Monitoring Hyper-V
Hyper-V connections
Hyper-V connection requirements
Add/edit Hyper-V connection details
Troubleshoot Hyper-V connection failure
Hyper-V alarms
Spotlight overview page for Hyper-V
Monitoring Unix
Unix alarms
Unix connections
Connection requirements and initial configuration - Unix/Linux
Add/edit Unix/Linux server connection details
Monitoring Diagnostic Server
Diagnostic Server alarms
Remove a Diagnostic Server
Spotlight Cloud monitoring connections in the cloud
Add cloud connections
Delete a cloud connection
Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application for on-premise connections
Configure connections
Add/edit connection details
Enable/disable connections
Discover...
Connection tags
Delete connections
Configure alarms
How to configure alarms
List of alarm configurations
Apply configuration to...
Alarms - message variables
Configure alarm actions
Create a new alarm action rule
Conditions
Actions
Guidelines and example cases for multiple rules
Manage multiple alarm action rules
Configure Diagnostic Server
Configure the Diagnostic Server's mail server
Configure PagerDuty
Configure the SNMP trap
Replace literals
Configure planned outage
Add a planned outage schedule
Manage planned outage schedules
Planned outage details
Configure Fragmentation Checks
Configure fragmentation checks
Apply configuration to...
Configure error log
Configure error log entries
Apply configuration to...
Application status
Configuration templates
Restart/stop the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server
Backup Spotlight Cloud local configuration data
Uninstall the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application