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221 Ratings
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Based on 221 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Application Performance Management

8.3
AppDynamics
83%

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
AppDynamics ranks higher in 8/8 features
AppDynamics ranks higher in 8/8 features
Application monitoring

9.1
91%
33 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Database monitoring

8.0
80%
33 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Threshold alerts

8.9
89%
32 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Predictive capabilities

7.1
71%
32 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Application performance management console

8.8
88%
31 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Collaboration tools

7.7
77%
24 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring

8.0
80%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

8.5
85%
4 Ratings

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- AppDynamics is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew
- SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

8.4
AppDynamics
84%
33 Ratings

9.4
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
94%
112 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

9.0
AppDynamics
90%
1 Rating

8.6
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
86%
4 Ratings
Usability

AppDynamics
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
91%
6 Ratings
Availability

AppDynamics
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
91%
1 Rating
Performance

AppDynamics
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
91%
1 Rating
Support Rating

8.1
AppDynamics
81%
12 Ratings

9.4
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
94%
6 Ratings
Implementation Rating

AppDynamics
N/A
0 Ratings

7.6
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
76%
2 Ratings
Product Scalability

AppDynamics
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
82%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
AppDynamics
It handles auto-monitoring / configuring a dynamic performance set point that doesn't require manual configuration and the perspective is more end to end which from one perspective is good because you get a view of the whole application end to end but there is less focus than on actual response time to the end-user and detailed breakdown which is in some sense the ultimate purpose of performance monitoring.
CloudOps Manager Infrastructure
AccruentComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
This is an easy 10 because I actually have recommended this product to multiple clients and colleagues! Any shop that writes its own SQL queries will benefit from the insight provided by SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, so they know which of their queries is causing a bottleneck. Small shops or databases with only a few tables likely will see far fewer opportunities for optimization.
VP of Development
Spitfire Management, LLCComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Pros
AppDynamics
- Ease of installing the agents is unbelievable. Supports almost all the servers and technologies.
- The UI is very clean and very intuitive. Setting up widgets, Alarms, notifications are very powerful features
- The ability to drill down to a particular layer in technology is useful to find out the performance bottlenecks efficiently.

Verified User
Professional in Quality Assurance
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
- Maintains historical SQL execution data, enabling forensic analysis
- Has the ability to slice and dice the data so that you can drill down to the execution of a single SQL statement being executed by a stored procedure
- Alerts to when the consumption pattern changes
- Shows historical average run times against the current, illustrating problems when they arise
- Provides tuning advice based on best practices

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesCons
AppDynamics
- In terms of dashboard I believe there is plenty of room for improvement as it's lacking many advance like searching data within the dashboard is not possible.
- Synthetic monitoring part is still complex and need[s] to be addressed as hosting agents for synthetic monitoring is still [a] challenging task.
- The on premise controller setup requires huge resources and since it's the important component of AppDynamics ignoring it will cause loss of metrics and slowness while capturing metrics.
Senior Associate Technology
SynechronInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
- Alerts seem to be lacking in DPA compared to competitor's tools. They can be setup but are not quite as easy or as helpful as some other tools I have used.
- Grooming/pruning the repository database isn't very easy. We don't manage a lot of instances but our repo DB has grown pretty significantly.
- At times when I am drilled-down to a chart, it can be difficult to navigate around from that point to another time range/query/metric.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Online Media Company, 501-1000 employeesPricing Details
AppDynamics
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
AppDynamics
AppDynamics 9.0
Based on 1 answer
its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.
CloudOps Manager Infrastructure
AccruentComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 8.6
Based on 4 answers
We have relied on this product for a very long time and it continues to exceed expectations. The product is a vital part of our organization at this point, it would not be very ideal for us to abandon it. We use it almost every day and depend on its alerts for critical parts of our business

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesUsability
AppDynamics
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 9.1
Based on 6 answers
I don't want to think about managing clusters of SQL servers in the future without this tool. We have demoed other tools and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is the gold standard for usability and insight into what your servers are doing. The UI is a bit dated, but everything is laid out in a logical manner and drilling down into queries or timeslices is extremely intuitive.
Database Engineer
Life.ChurchReligious Institutions, 501-1000 employees
Support Rating
AppDynamics
AppDynamics 8.1
Based on 12 answers
AppDynamics has its own community site that includes forums and a knowledge base. On the forums, you can converse with other members of the community and ask technical questions as you have them. Though this forum isn’t filled with people there are active members for you to gain some valuable insights.
IT Architecture Manager
Edenred MéxicoComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 9.4
Based on 6 answers
I have had to use their support on a few occasions, for reasons that I am not clear about until recently I have always had problems upgrading the software (although the last 2 updates have gone without issue which I am very pleased to say).On those unfortunate occasions, the support has been brilliant with either excellently documented guides on how to resolve the issue by myself or have been hands-on with calls and screen sharing to remotely fix the issue. Every time the problem was sorted and more importantly, nothing was lost (apart from a bit of time). And as I stated above whatever the problem was that was causing my upgrade issues appears to have been resolved in the last 2 updates.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 201-500 employeesImplementation Rating
AppDynamics
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 7.6
Based on 2 answers
Follow the guidelines for the capacity of the servers. We found that the DPA databases were getting rather large and also that there are ways to reduce their size built into some of the options.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employeesAlternatives Considered
AppDynamics
AppDynamics is still a good solution as this is one the earliest tool available in the APM space and people are used to this Application usage. However other products are also doing great as Dynatrace is the biggest competitor since it adds on all the AppDynamics features plus it gives additional information readily available. Now Honeycomb is also rising in terms of SLI and SLO objectives.
Development Team Lead
AccentureComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
At the time, we found SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to be easier to setup and to have a richer feature set than Redgate SQL Monitor, plus, from what I remember, the DPA pricing worked better for us over the course of a year. We're very happy with all the features DPA has to offer.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
AppDynamics
- Platform map drilldown capabilities and code-level visibility helped us to find the root cause of problems faster
- Threshold alerts made proactive problem handling easier
- Data capture module helped us to link technical data with business data and support customers far more efficiently

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employeesSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
- It has allowed us to progress as an organization with much less reliance on a direct DBA than would traditionally be required
- Allowed us to be much more proactive in our performance monitoring and responding to issues that would affect users.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 501-1000 employees