Fun with Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server
August 15, 2016
Fun with Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server
We use Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer to monitor across all of our environments. All physical servers, virtualized, and cloud are being checked for any performance issues involving our SQL databases. Everyone in our team uses it and discusses the results in our weekly meetings. The alerts are used to escalate issues up to management.
- Performance monitoring
- Centralization of all servers and architecture
- Notifications whether by email or phone
- User friendly statistics
- Cloud support
- Lock alerting
- Lowering monitoring cost
- Making our high cost DBAs more efficient
- Ability to get a comprehensive feel for our database environment
I have done my comparison against SQL Sentry and I feel like Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server is more of a graphical tool, so it lets you see wait time for a database instance. That's really nice when you're dealing with similar instances. We haven't really had any issues with it. Again, we're a pretty small shop. We have about twenty database instances. Scalability is more of just a licensing factor. As you want to monitor more instances, you go out and you just purchase more licensing.