Database performance monitoring made easy
April 06, 2017
Database performance monitoring made easy
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server
SQL data is the core of our business. We provide very time-sensitive services for our clients using a combination of in-house and third party products and queries. We need to be able to quickly determine where the bottlenecks are and what is causing them. Database Performance Analyzer allows us to focus immediately on problem areas and gives us instant feedback on the impact of any query design changes.
- Setup is simple and you start getting meaningful data immediately.
- The interface is intuitive and it is easy to drill down into more specific detail. Every section has all the information you need on that page so you can see at a glance how everything correlates.
- The integration with other Solarwinds monitoring tools are especially helpful and gives you a much broader look at your entire environment.
- I have yet to find any data that I cannot see or any database related problem this has not helped resolve.
- We had a situation in the past where Database Performance Analyzer helped us settle a dispute with a vendor. We had a system slowdown after an update and the vendor insisted the problem was the database. We were able to use the metrics provided by DPA to show that the database was performing optimally and the slowdown was in fact with the application.
- In another instance, we experienced a processing delay and we were able to use Database Performance Analyzer to immediately pinpoint the offending query and identify unexpected consequences in how the query was structured.
At the time we evaluated Database Performance Analyzer, we were already using other Solarwinds products and we were looking for that continued ease of use and integration so we didn't really evaluate any other products.