Item: SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Rating: 10
Author: Steve Shandro

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Beyond day-to-day monitoring, the DPA (Database Performance Analyzer) is key to anyone who needs to look back in time to provide Trending and/or Root Cause Analysis, whether database related or not. There are suspects and culprits, and this product can help to identify them. DPA is very, very detailed, and you can zero in on an issue, all the way down to a minute timeframe if you are willing to do the cross analysis work. This product is A+ and can be used for Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Problem categorization.
Problem identification.
Serious trending analysis.

Cons

When presenting possible sources of issues, it may be better to first give a list overview, and then proceed to drill down into the details.

Return on Investment

Trending of issues.

Alternatives Considered

DPA (Database Performance Analyzer) can unify your research, under one product, when multiple distinct databases are involved.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited to root cause analysis (but you also have to do your cross-analysis).

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