AppDynamics vs SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

• Integration with multiple frameworks (Java, NodeJS, .NET, etc). Good database monitoring tool as well as end-user and synthetic user monitoring tool.
• Works great for on-premise and is always maturing and keeping up with industry trends.
• It's been in Garter's Leader Quad for years now.
• Very intuitive web UI and IT, Mgmt, QA, Devs, and Ops could easily use it.

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• Top N SQL queries.
• Outstanding UI for rapid examination and drill down to detail data.
• Intuitive UI design - better than any other product in its category.
• Enabled us to immediately shift DB related performance matters first to developers so that our DBA's can focus on more important matters.

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• It's pretty slow to learn all of the capabilities

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• No PostgreSQL support.
• No ability to see a historical listing of annotations. Once annotations roll off the 30-day window, they are no longer accessible.
• There is no "timezone awareness" for global monitoring. All times are local to the area where DPA is run; this can throw off remote staff. We have sometimes created annotations at the incorrect time.
• In certain cases, the GUI gets cumbersome. This is especially true in the new (version 12) screen which shows SQL details.
• The screen presentation often doesn't lend itself to copy-paste for data to go into an email, documentation, etc.
• No facility for tracking unused or seldom used indexes.
• No integration with Oracle's Diagnostic and Tuning Pack features.

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• AppDynamics is helping many applications by identifying the performance issues and bottlenecks so that they can be fixed to improve application performance, reduce resource utilization, and memory leaks.T his in-turn provides a cost benefit to the organizations and customer satisfaction.
• We can analyze large amounts of data quickly and it helps us spot upcoming issues before they have happened. This means we can be safe in the knowledge that our network is going to run without any problems which is extremely important to a business.
• Monitoring app usage and error reporting. AppDynamics can also help you drastically cut down the time spent looking for the source of an issue, it can then help towards preventing a repeat of the same problem.

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• The tuning suggestions reduced wait statistics by 80% when a new procedure was introduced without proper indexing.
• Code has been reverted thanks to the data provided by SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.

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