SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a great addition to your DBA and Development toolkit
April 21, 2022

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a great addition to your DBA and Development toolkit

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is our primary monitoring and analysis tool for our SQL server instances. We leverage it for both production and non-production environments. It gives us visibility into system and query performance, alerts us to issues so they can be remediated, and allows us to dig into performance trends of queries and look for key opportunities to make our systems more performant. It is used both by our DBAs and our development team.
  • Ease of configuring alerting
  • Excellent tooltips and descriptions of issues
  • Clear breakdown of multiple metrics and performance statistics
  • A plethora of metrics are captured for analysis
  • Being able to alert on blocked sessions over a time period, rather than a flat value threshold
  • It has allowed us to progress as an organization with much less reliance on a direct DBA than would traditionally be required
  • Allowed us to be much more proactive in our performance monitoring and responding to issues that would affect users.

Do you think SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer's feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer again?

Yes

I believe that SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a great choice for an organization that does not have a specific DBA or one that is still growing into the role. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is filled with hints, tips, and explanations of the various readings and metrics. This is very useful to help understand what is happening and why, what it means, and what some potential solutions are towards remediating any issues. This is extremely valuable for our development team, allowing them to be more proactive with the queries they write in viewing how they perform and where bottlenecks might be.

Using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

  • Database monitoring and alerting
  • Performance analysis and tuning
  • Identifying key performance blockers as part of troubleshooting