Item: SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Rating: 7
Author: Kiran Yakkala

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Database Performance Analyzer is really helpful in our organization to find DB issues. It does in-depth database performance monitoring and provides a lot of valuable data to us.

Pros and Cons

Database Performance Analyzer module helped us capture database response times and other info.
Database Performance Analyzer is really good at capturing in depth DB data that is not really possible from multiple other modules.

Investigating everything is manual in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.
We will need to manually figure out what the issues are using SolarWinds.

Return on Investment

Database Performance Analyzer was really helpful to capture a lot of data that was helpful to resolve multiple issues.
Some one needs to manually look at each data point captured and analyse the results which is timetaking.

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace Application Monitoring and Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is really good at some scenarios compared to other tools in the market.

Other Software Used

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring, Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals

Likelihood to Recommend

Database Performance Analyzer is really helpful for capturing DB procs and other info. However, it was not able to capture the data we needed like the application jobs running on the database, etc.

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer as a whole

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer