Oracle Enterprise Manager vs Quest Spotlight

Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai manages Oracle Database and Engineered Systems across data centers and cloud environments. It supports real-time and historical database diagnostics, tuning, issue analysis, change validation and automated migrations. Teams can monitor Oracle and non-Oracle technologies, configure static or adaptive threshold alerts, and manage incidents and notifications. It covers Oracle Exadata and Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, as well as Oracle applications, WebLogic Server on Kubernetes and third-party middleware. Database management spans on-premises systems, OCI, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Security tools support fleet assessments, sensitive-data discovery, compliance tracking, secure-configuration audits and automated remediation. Dynamic Runbooks can guide troubleshooting with notes, charts, SQL or operating-system commands; an Enterprise Manager app can display metric data in Grafana. The platform can run on premises or through OCI Marketplace. Enterprise Manager 24ai requires Oracle Database. Base features are included with an Oracle software license or support contract; some packs and options require separate appropriate licenses. Oracle does not state a plan price on the product page.

Quest Spotlight is a self-hosted database monitoring and diagnostics product for professionals managing SQL Server environments. Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise uses agentless monitoring from a centralized diagnostic server and raises alarms for performance deviations. Its tools include incident playback, health checks, workload analysis, deadlock detection, root cause analysis, query profiling, wait and lock analysis, and execution plans. SQL Optimizer integration identifies long-running queries and suboptimal code for further tuning. Users can define thresholds, create counters, and configure rule-based actions to run once or repeatedly. One screen can monitor SQL Server, Windows, and virtualization infrastructure. Supported databases listed are Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Oracle Database, and IBM DB2; SQL Azure is specifically supported by Spotlight on SQL Server. The Diagnostic Server requires a SQL Server account with the sysadmin role, while Windows performance counters use WMI queries. Windows is a listed platform, deployment is self-hosted, and pricing is available on request. Quest offers an on-premises trial, but no duration is stated. Spotlight Cloud reached end of life on December 31, 2024.