I've used spotlight in the past and found it a good tool. i was very impressed with confio's demo in ioug but have not used it persay on the topic of monitoring tool does anyone know if someone has a a comprehensive analysis of all the tools out there. we're lookign at quest,bms and teamquest and wanted to see if someone had implemented /analyzed any of these on an enterprise scale. "Daiminger, Helmut" <HELMUT.DAIMINGER@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi, We are thinking about buying a performance monitoring tool for Oracle. What tools do you guys out there use? Is anybody using "Spotlight on Oracle" or "Cofio DBFlash"? I would appreciate it, if you could share your experiences. This is 9.2 and 10.x on HP-UX 11i. Thanks, Helmut