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DPA for non-DBAs
What do you like best about the product?
Integrates well for a robust application monitoring and troubleshooting experience. When using APM and node groups we are able to utilize AppStack views, reports, and dashboards to provide end-users, admins, and execs the right view and information levels.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is not as good as other Solarwinds modules. There is a learning curve even for regular Solarwinds users. The cost and licensing can become a concern.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Critical application monitoring and database connection statistics for real time alerting and troubleshooting.
Reporting for historical root cause analysis
Reporting for historical root cause analysis
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The power of this product is in its ability to scale and implement with other Solarwinds products. I highly recommend having all of your infrastructure be involved in the planning and implementation phases to get the most out of this product.
Casual SQL user
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can very easy to identify performance issues and find the most of the time find the root cause in a single pane of glass. This is really helpful for example when users are complaining of slowness issues on a business critical application and this tool can potentially provide the answer in a short of amount of time if the issue lies on at the database level. There are many positives to the product, but being able to pinpoint an issue is huge.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to be able to create traces on the fly based on findings from DPA. It would also help be nice if the product were more customizable. More intuitive reporting would be nice, but I've found that Solarwinds reporting in general is sort of difficult and is not limited to just the Database Performance Analyzer module.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to find root cause for critical application issues and to keep an eye on performance to proactively attack and/or prevent potential issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think this is a great tool to monitor databases and to identify issues that could potentially affect critical business applications. Anyone who is looking for a product that provides a high level of functionality in a single pane of glass would definitely benefit from Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer. I am sysadmin and a very casual SQL user and this product is very easy to follow and understand even though I am not proficient in database administration.
This is going to completely change the way my developers attack problem code.
What do you like best about the product?
I love that you get detail on specific queries. I can now have my developers focus on very detailed issues, and can pinpoint where issues are occurring.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's nothing that I dislike so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're going to start attacking poorly performing queries. This tool has shown us incredible amounts of data that we didn't have the bandwidth to dig for in the past. My team can focus on a few things and start knocking additional things off the list as we fix them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is especially helpful for small teams. I have one DBA and 5 developers supporting 15k employees, so finding the time to do DB work is never easy. This narrows down the scope of finding problems tremendously.
I have worked with DBA and they love the DPA
What do you like best about the product?
Showing the colorful graph and root caus
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't work with it but the DBA did not complain but liking it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Normally, they blame everything on DB and by using DPA, will find the rood cause
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I tried recommending it but the DBA already was using it in smaller lincences
Very useful utility
What do you like best about the product?
The integration with the Orion platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that is would also work with Microsoft Exchange.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly performance related issues
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure this is the product you want.
Improving Database Performance
What do you like best about the product?
Identify database problems in real-time
Integration with the Orion Platform
Easy to install
Integration with the Orion Platform
Easy to install
What do you dislike about the product?
Did not provide exact procedures or suggestions on how to improve on database performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solarwinds Orion platform has been running slow and does not provide real-time information sometimes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's ability to integrate with the Orion Platform is its selling point.
Managing Database Health with DPA
What do you like best about the product?
The monitoring features and the ability to set up notifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost seems a bit high and the licensing in general is a bit confusing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability for monitoring and notification when we need to add resources to database servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are trying to improve the performance of your databases, use DPA.
DPA
What do you like best about the product?
The email reports are great for seeing what is going on. The console is easy to use and provides real time data. Has helped figure out lots of problem areas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really don't have any dislikes. Some times the renewing the license requires contact with Solarwinds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL queries has been the most problems we see. Also found that we needed to add resources to our servers.
DataBase Performance Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
We really like the integration with Database performance analyzer and Perfstack Analysis. Being able to bring the data side by side with some of the other solarwinds functions is what we have been missing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we could just do a complete integration with the Orion portal. Right now it feels like separate products which they kind of are under the SolarWinds name. If it was completely integrated into the SolarWind website and we didn't have to login to two it would help with the flow for our user base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It really provides our Database team with a central location for visibility into their application. As well as its very easy for non DBA's. We can provide access to our DevOps team and they can help correlate events with the Databases we have in dpa.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its expensive but a great addition to your monitor toolset!!
Best database performance monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you are able to see everything involved with the databases. It is very easy to see what queries are taking the most time and you can see the exact query that is being executed. It is easy to setup and you can get monitoring going very quickly. The performance of the actual DPA application is very fast. Upgrades are very quick as well. They usually only take about 20 minutes. It supports all common DB languages. A wizard allows the adding of database instances very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product needs more integration into the Orion platform, especially for reporting. It would be nice if the alerts and reporting were setup like the Orion platform. This product was purchased by SolarWinds and does not yet have the same feel as the Orion platform. I am sure this is on the radar and will take time. I would also like to customize the charts more that are pulled from DPA, in the Orion interface. It also needs to have some sort of agentless monitoring. The cost can be significant when monitoring a lot of instances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it mainly to solve problems with application performance. Often, it is the application's database that is the issue. DPA shows us that it really isn't even the the actual database, but improperly written queries.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to see database performance and more than you will ever use, use this product. You wont be sorry.
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