SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

Score8.9 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor?

VividCortex, acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019, provides database performance monitoring designed to increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings. The GDPR- and SOC 2-compliant platform offers visibility into major open-source databases—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis—for the engineering team at scale. Industry leaders like Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp rely on Database Performance Monitor for all-query monitoring and drill-down views across thousands of servers concurrently.

How customers use Database Performance Monitor:

Before an issue arises:

Reduce risk – after a code deployment, find changes and explore query response
Improve performance – identify outliers and see system changes over time
Gain efficiency – get recommendations, find configuration issues, and customize alerts

During and after:

Speed recovery – quickly isolate potential issues in the database
Understand – see detailed query behavior across servers for deep visibility
Get support – database experts can help answer your questions fast

Database Performance Monitor is designed to make it easy for every engineer to deploy code with confidence, troubleshoot and diagnose outages, and monitor database health. Support includes documentation, a customer success team, email, phone, video, and in-app chat.

Categories & Use Cases

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The Profiler Dashboard is a powerful, dynamic dashboard for ranking and filtering activity on your servers: It can instantly show you what needs attention and it provides a unified view of all your database types that VividCortex monitors. It enables you to view and understand your system by profiling it according to its most significant attributes—customized and selected by you.

This dashboard displays a list of queries and allows you to filter them with powerful specificity. Filters can be set according to query text, host, and timeframe when the query was first seen / last active.

VividCortex captures an enormous amount of data, and the Summary Dashboard helps users make sense of it, reducing their time-to-insight. It features widgets with automatic displays for Top 5 Queries by Total Time, Top 5 Queries by User CPU, Application Overview, Critical Events, and more.

VividCortex monitors thousands of metrics in your system, and the Charts and Dashboard’s navigation pane allows you to toggle, customize, and enable various categories of generated charts. You can then easily navigate and examine the charts’ metrics with mouseover and zoom capabilities.

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Mike Maner View profile

Network Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Whitesell Group (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As with most companies, DB instances power our business app & DB admins need optimal performance. Having an internal view of DB issues & performance helps us optimize the DB instances that are integral to operations.

Pros

Simple to use and very easy to learn.
The execution engines run in parallel, can execute any syntax or query.
DPN can run all queries for both Oracle and SQL with no additional support.

Cons

The Reporting feature currently doesn't allow customization.

Most Important Features

Virtual infrastructure resource monitoring.
DB performance analysis.
Internal view of DB issues & performance.

Return on Investment

What is the cost of a downed DB instance? That's your ROI. DPM lets you see issues before they become critical.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Other Software Used

IFS Applications, Carbonite Backup for Microsoft 365, Carbonite Endpoint, SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

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