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Cloud-powered SQL server performance monitoring

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Spotlight Cloud - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Spotlight Cloud overview

What is Spotlight Cloud?

Spotlight Cloud is a cloud-based database performance monitoring solution designed to provide tools for 24/7 performance coverage and instant diagnostics. In addition to database monitoring, Spotlight Cloud provides query plan analysis and SQL optimization tools for SQL servers using Spotlight's Tuning Pack. Spotlight Cloud has functionality for alarm management, server health checks, performance diagnostics, and workload analysis.

With Spotlight Cloud, database administrators (DBAs) are able to know exactly when there is a problem with over 100 alarm types. DBAs can configure and define thresholds, collect background information and alarm details, and determine priority levels for smart alarms and preventable alarms. For preventable care, Spotlight Cloud provides routine health checks to determine potential and actual issues for I/O, security, memory, or disaster recovery. Issues can be ignored or clicked on to display in-depth details for potential analysis.

Within the availability dashboard, Spotlight Cloud always displays the real-time status and cluster associated with each database. For database monitoring, DBAs can gain a quick overview using filtered views for overall database utilization, associated alarms, and trend information. Spotlight Cloud workload analyzer is able to dissect information and workloads to resolve complex issues such as slow workload performance or incorrect SQL syntax using root-cause analysis. Additionally, Spotlight Cloud also provides a TempDb dashboard to visualize usage of the TempDb database and drill down into specific details and configurations as well as potential or current issues involving the database.

Starting price

45per feature /
per month

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Spotlight Cloud’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Spotlight Cloud reviews

Overall rating

4.5

/5

19

Positive reviews

89

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.47/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

12

5

2

0

0

Pros
“Cloud synchronization is great. Deployment is straightforward and you have all your instances monitored in a matter of minutes.”
DS

Daniel S.

DBA

“Support has been fantastic and they seem to be open to feature recommendations.”
TH

Tim H.

Sr. Database Reliability Engineer

“I like the summary page and drill down capability and its easy to setup and easy to use.”
X(

Xuecai (.

System Analyst

Cons
“E.g. Deadlock alert does not contain any information about the deadlock. The Availability Group monitoring does not have much detail.”
PI

Paul I.

SQL Server DBA

“The play back feature is hard to used and restets itself. Alarms are hard to snooze and acknowledge, sometimes after the refresh the alarm comes back.”
DS

David S.

ETL Developer

“Less features compared to existing software in Market. Alarms are little Annoying.”
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Nag K.

SQL Server Administrator

Who uses Spotlight Cloud?

Based on 19 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Computer Software
Telecommunications
Computer & Network Security
Others

Use cases

Server Monitoring
Database
Database Monitoring
Network Monitoring

Spotlight Cloud's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Spotlight Cloud users:

Performance monitoring
Real-Time notifications
CPU monitoring
Performance analysis
Data storage management
Server monitoring

All Spotlight Cloud features

Features rating:

Alerts/Notifications
Threshold alerts
Diagnostic tools
Event logs
Monitoring
Visual analytics
Virtual machine monitoring
Troubleshooting
Resource optimization
Reporting/Analytics
Remote monitoring & management
Relational database management
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time analytics
Query analysis
Prioritization
Predictive analytics
Mobile access
Historical trend analysis
Disaster recovery
Database monitoring
Data visualization
Dashboard
Capacity planning
Application-Level analysis
Anomaly detection

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Spotlight Cloud pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

45

Per month

Per Feature

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Spotlight Cloud price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Spotlight Cloud's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Cloud synchronization is great. Deployment is straightforward and you have all your instances monitored in a matter of minutes.”
DS

Daniel S.

DBA

“Support has been fantastic and they seem to be open to feature recommendations.”
TH

Tim H.

Sr. Database Reliability Engineer

Spotlight Cloud integrations (1)

Top integrations

Spotlight Cloud support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Phone Support
Email/Help Desk
Chat
24/7 (Live rep)

Training options

Live Online
Webinars
Documentation

Spotlight Cloud FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Spotlight Cloud offer?

Spotlight Cloud has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $45.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Spotlight Cloud?

Spotlight Cloud has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Spotlight Cloud support?

Spotlight Cloud supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Spotlight Cloud support mobile devices?

Spotlight Cloud supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does Spotlight Cloud offer an API?

No, Spotlight Cloud does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Spotlight Cloud offer?

Spotlight Cloud offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat, 24/7 (Live rep)

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