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What is SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning.What can you monitor with DPA? OracleOracle ExadataOracle EBSMicrosoft SQL Server Azure SQL DatabaseAzure SQL Database Managed InstanceMySQLDB2 SAP ASE AuroraMariaDBDPA monitors…
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What is SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning.
What can you monitor with DPA?
- Oracle
- Oracle Exadata
- Oracle EBS
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- MySQL
- DB2
- SAP ASE
- Aurora
- MariaDB
What makes DPA stand out:
- Quick, easy, and reliable performance
troubleshooting available in real time and historically
- Machine learning anomaly analysis to bring intelligence to go beyond traditional threshold based analysis
- Find inefficient workloads, aggregated by table, for indexing opportunities—an “X marks the spot” tuning analysis
- Cross-platform database support for a single-pane-of-glass view into your environment
- Blocking analysis: what is blocking and a hierarchy of what is being blocked, plus overall impact
- PerfStack™ integration with other SolarWinds products for more complete visibility (applications, servers, storage, hypervisor, network, and more)
- Agent-less architecture with the ability to scale from a few instances to thousands, low 1% average overhead
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Features
- Supported: Database monitoring
- Supported: Tuning advisors for queries, workload, and indexes aggregated at the table level
- Supported: Correlated resource metrics for easy diagnosis of hardware constraint impacts on end-users
- Supported: Detailed blocking analysis for contention bottlenecks
- Supported: I/O activity tracking at the drive/mount and file level
- Supported: Alerts and reports
- Supported: DPA Central to manage large and/or distributed environments
- Supported: Always On Availability Group and RAC insights
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Integrations
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
- SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
- SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
- SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
- SolarWinds VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
- SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
- SolarWinds User Device Tracker
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, AWS Marketplace app |
| Mobile Application | No |
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User-Friendly Interface: Users appreciate the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for its straightforward and easy-to-understand interface. They find it intuitive and user-friendly, even for new users with minimal training.
Real-Time Analysis and Support: The tool's real-time analysis capabilities and support services are highly valued by users. They mention that it helps them promptly identify and resolve performance issues in SQL databases, such as errors, long-running queries, or system-blocking problems.
Wide Range of Supported Databases: Users find the extensive range of supported databases to be a valuable feature of the tool. It allows them to monitor and analyze the performance of multiple databases from one centralized interface.
Dated and Confusing User Interface: Several users have expressed frustration with the user interface, describing it as dated, confusing, and difficult to navigate. They suggest that the user interface could be more user-friendly and have a reduced learning curve. Some users also mentioned that the navigation can be unintuitive and sometimes tough, and that some items can be confusing to find again. Overall, improvements in the cosmetic aspects of the user interface are needed.
Lack of Reporting Flexibility: According to some users, there is a lack of flexibility in both dashboard customization and reporting capabilities. They feel that the reporting feature needs improvement to provide more options for customization and analysis. This limitation hinders users' ability to obtain meaningful insights from their data.
High Cost: The cost of the software has been a major complaint among some users, particularly when it comes to adding additional instances. These users mention that the licensing timeline needs improvement as adding new instances becomes cost-prohibitive during certain periods of the year. The high cost associated with using this software can limit its accessibility for businesses operating on tight budgets.
Users highly recommend trying the free trial and evaluating SolarWinds DPA before purchasing. They suggest taking advantage of the free demo and training resources provided by SolarWinds. Users advise implementing SolarWinds DPA for monitoring and analyzing databases, especially for those who are just learning. The software is also recommended for DBAs in small to medium businesses and for integrating with other SolarWinds products for better data analysis. Additionally, users suggest comparing it with Idera offerings for SQL performance monitoring and highlighting it to DBAs as they will likely find value in it.
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We use DPA for database monitoring across the enter enterprise, dev/QA and production. We connect it to Oracle, SQL and MySQL Database Servers. We use DPA as a single source of monitoring for database performance issues. The historical and real-time query monitoring allows us to troubleshoot and quickly identify the root cause of a poorly performing server.
- Database performance monitoring.
- Database performance root cause analysis.
- Server performance monitoring.
- Licensing Model can be expensive on a per-instance basis, consider a per-host-based option.
- Limited ability to combine monitoring results for similar groups of servers.
- Different license types for different types of servers (Oracle Enterprise vs Standard).
- One stop shop for all database performance data.
- Faster time to resolution on database performance issues.
- Ability to capture and analyze performance data.
DPA is a market leader and goes beyond what most products in the space can offer. It's a battle between SQL Sentry and DPA for the lead and everybody has their favorite. I personally prefer DPA for ease of install, management and better tuning and query advice options.
Yes
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). We wanted a tool that supposed Oracle and SQL which OEM doesn't.
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- Prior Experience with the Product
I had used DPA had a previously job after having it recommended by a DBA I trust. We started it using it and right away it became a popular tool both on our teams and with others.
- QA Team troubleshoots performance issues from on new code prior to role out
- Operations Team troubleshoots performance issues on production applications in real time
- Dev team uses DPA as a resource to optimize existing code as we scale data
- Security team can use it to identify out of band activity
- Charts/Graphs go over great with non technical team members
- Locate additional paid optimizations possibilities to our applications.
- Increase efficiently of our code allowing us to scale in support of new data without expanding resource consumption
- Increase Application Response SLA's due to improved code
We got it right.
Yes we purchased premium support to ensure we have the latest build of DPA and access to technical resources and training should we run into problem. We don't have to open tickets often but when we do it's usually a critical issue and we need support ASAP.
We use DPA in production and we want to have the latest version and access to support.
No
Numerous times usually with upgrades.
August 14, 2020
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We use it at the data warehousing and analytics group to monitor the load and set up alerts on the data warehouse server. We have set up alerts on long-running queries, blocking other queries, deadlocks, instance availability, unused indexes, etc. Some of them are very useful, but the deadlocks alert can be improved to show what queries were in the deadlock, so we can improve our solution.
- We have set up alerts on long-running queries, blocking other queries, deadlocks, instance availability, unused indexes, etc.
- The status summary is useful to see the load on the server.
- Deadlocks alert can be improved to show what queries were in the deadlock, so we can improve our solution.
- Deadlocks alert can be improved to show what queries were in the deadlock, so we can improve our solution.
- We never got to setup https using the documentation provided by solar winds. We still keep getting https error when we access our DPA site.
- A better technical customer service would help.
- It helps us monitor our server which is very useful.
We selected SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to be able to monitor our database server.
No
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Database developers and architect
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- Query performance advice
- long running query alerts
- query blocking alerts
- deadlock alerts
- improve application performance
- improve server availability
- monitor data server performance and availability
We evaluated Redgate and Found solarwinds to be better
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
- enabling secure website posed some issues. Installation was smooth
- no training
yes. Very easy
yes. I have configured deadlock monitoring, service down, long running queries, blocking queries, agent job failures, query tuning advice. They are very useful.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
we have added custom code to monitor long running queries, blocking queries.
deadlock monitoring, service down, long running queries, blocking queries, agent job failures, query tuning advice
No
No
I was not able to enable secure website. The support helped me with that
- monitoring memory usage
- monitoring processor usage
- query advice
- certain reports are difficult to understand
- SQL server
We only monitor our SQL server database. pretty easy
- network monitoring
- Single Signon
Good tool. must have
support for the product to be included
vendor is pretty good, very responsive
Yes
yes, it went pretty smooth
- new features like deadlock alerts,
- new reports
- deadlock alert
- new usage reports
No
DPA is currently used by our development and support team to monitor our core database to keep an eye on performance day to day to avoid any rogue queries or new application causing issues for our business as a whole. In the early days of our business platform it was used to refine our queries to provide a better user experience.
- Highlights abnormal query performance
- Provides historical base line
- Gives detailed insight and these days recommendations on how to improve performance
- Not be written in JAVA and run on Apache
- Upgrades are always a problem for us
- In the early days of our application this proved to give an invaluable insight to improve performance
- It has also helped prevent issues before users have reported them which is great
At the time of evaluation, this product was similar in terms of cost but DPA was far better to access query performance issues which were the most important aspect for us. Redgate at the time was heavier on resource monitoring which was less important at the time.
No
Don't require it. DPA is hugely useful but not considered mission-critical so premium support would be wasteful.
No
As alluded to earlier I have had a number of issues during upgrading the software, despite following the guides for the process I had often been left with something not right, and on one occasion the service flat out refused to start. Troubleshooting guides didn't offer any solution so I contacted support. Within a short while I actually received a call from Solarwinds support to go over the problem, and following their clear given advice I was still not able to get the service started. The support engineer escalated the issue, whilst on the call, and almost immediately had someone available screen share to the server. They went thought the installation scripts and rather quickly found why the service wasn't starting, which they promptly resolved. I have to say to this day I think this was the most responsive, timely and impressive support call I have ever experienced.
I would like to close on the fact that this was a couple of years ago and more recently upgrading the software (at least on the last 2 occasions) has been problem-free for me.
I would like to close on the fact that this was a couple of years ago and more recently upgrading the software (at least on the last 2 occasions) has been problem-free for me.