Spotlight® Cloud

Spotlight Cloud Help Documentation

Topics

  • Getting started (Spotlight Cloud in your organization)
    • Sign up for a Quest account
    • To monitor connections to a SQL Server environment, install the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application
    • Requirements of the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server host
    • Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server Application Launch Checklist
    • 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 instance connections
      • SQL Server instance requirements
      • Add/Edit SQL Server instance connection details
      • Grant SQL Server instance account permissions
      • Troubleshoot SQL Server instance connection failure
      • SQL Server 2017 and Unix/Linux hosted connections
      • SQL Server instance alarms
    • SQL Server replication connections
      • SQL Server replication connections
      • SQL Server replication alarms
    • Azure SQL Managed Instance connections
      • Azure SQL Managed Instance connection requirements
      • Add/Edit Azure SQL Managed Instance connection details
      • Grant Azure SQL Managed Instance account permissions
      • Troubleshoot Azure SQL Managed Instance connection failure
      • Azure SQL Managed Instance alarms
    • Amazon RDS for SQL Server connections
      • Amazon RDS for SQL Server connection requirements
      • Add/Edit Amazon RDS for SQL Server connection details
      • Grant Amazon RDS for SQL Server account permissions
      • Troubleshoot Amazon RDS for SQL Server connection failure
      • Amazon RDS for SQL Server alarms
    • SQL Server storage page
    • SQL Server sessions page
    • SQL Server jobs page
    • SQL Server Deadlocks 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
  • 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 connections
      • Connection requirements and initial configuration - Unix/Linux
      • Add/edit Unix/Linux server connection details
    • Unix alarms
  • Monitoring Diagnostic Server
    • Diagnostic Server alarms
    • Remove a Diagnostic Server
  • Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application
    • Configure connections
      • Add/edit connection details
      • Enable/disable connections
      • 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
      • Import Diagnostic Server
    • 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...
    • Create a support bundle
      • Create a support bundle
    • Application status
    • Configuration templates
    • Restart/stop the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server
    • Backup Spotlight Cloud local configuration data
    • Uninstall the Spotlight Cloud Diagnostic Server application

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