Spotlight: Real-Time Systems Analyses

Spotlight is a program that monitors the overall performance of your PC. The nice thing about it is that it has many different views available to collect information. For example, the default loading screen bundles great information such as processor usage, memory usage, hard drive space available, page files written, etc. It makes this information pop by implementing well placed icons that change colors when performance is below a threshold (which can be changed). Another noteable feature is that you can view information however you please. There's the home screen which provides an overall view of your system and different charts that can keep track of performance over time.

Right now we've been using this at work to keep an eye on the performance of some of our servers. I am still in the process of learning how to have it monitor automatically to create perfomance baselines. If this supports Windows 7 I will be trying it out at home soon.

If you are interested, head here to download your free copy.