Open the Spotlight Overview page
From the Spotlight Client, click on a connection from the left Connections display to open the Spotlight Overview page.
About the Spotlight Overview page
Flows and components
The Spotlight Overview page is made up of flows and components.
Tailored to the connection type
The Spotlight Overview page flows and components are tailored to the connection type.
- Spotlight Overview page for Analysis Services
- Spotlight Overview page for Availability Group connections
- Spotlight Overview page for Azure SQL Managed Instance Connections
- Spotlight Overview page for Hyper-V connections
- Spotlight Overview page for Replication connections
- Spotlight Overview page for SQL Azure
- Spotlight Overview page for SQL Server connections
- Spotlight Overview page for Unix/Linux Connections
- Spotlight Overview page for VMware connections
- Spotlight Overview page for Windows Server connections
- Spotlight Overview page for the Spotlight Diagnostic Server
Show a basic description of the component.
Hover the mouse over the component
Show a detailed description of the component.
Left click on the component
Alarms and component color
If a Spotlight Overview page component’s color is other than green then the component is in an alarm state. Click on the component for help to resolve the alarm.
Unable to collect data
If Spotlight is unable to collect the data required, Spotlight displays a small icon 
on the affected component. Click the icon to see more information about the problem.
What’s This?
TO show help on a Spotlight Overview page component, right click on the component and select What’s This?.
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If available, click to show more numerical detail related to the Spotlight Overview page component. |
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If alarms have been raised against the component then What’s This? provides assistance in resolving the alarms. |
The behavior of What’s This is configurable. For more information, see Home page click action.
Show History
Right click on a Spotlight Overview page component and select Show History to show the component’s history in a popup chart.
Use the chart toolbar to zoom and maximize the view. Help on the charts toolbar provides more information on the zoom feature: Spotlight Charts Toolbar.
Right-click the chart to set the time frame.
For more historical views see Playback.
Show Details
Right click on a Spotlight Overview page component and select Show Details to open a Spotlight drilldown page made up of grids and charts that further details the data related to this Spotlight Overview page component.
Copy to Clipboard
Right click on a Spotlight Overview page component and select Copy to Clipboard to copy numeric data associated with the component to the clipboard. Paste from the clipboard to the desired destination – as text within a text editor.