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SolarWinds DPA review
February 07, 2020

SolarWinds DPA review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

The SolarWinds DPA module is used mainly to monitor our MSSQL instances for performance. We had lots of issues related to DB performance and we were not sure about the root cause before implementing DPA. Now, we are getting proactive alerts when there is a deviation from the performance baseline configured in the tool and we are very happy with it.
  • Easy to configure
  • Real time data
  • Notification email templates need improvement
  • Needs a little training to go over/work with dashboards
  • Saved lots of man hours from troubleshooting application slowness issue.
  • Licensing model is a bit costly.
We have evaluated AppDynamics and Datadog along with Solarwinds DPA and definitely the winner is SolarWinds. We have been using it for the past 5 years. It has better alert functionality and is easy to use while providing great analytics.
Best suited in a three-tiered environment where there is a web application, middleware, and a DB in the backend. Not suited in stand-alone DB environment like backend DB for a static website. DPA is also very well suited when troubleshooting the application performance related issue. It gives a clear picture of the issue.