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Great Visibility of each Database Performance
What do you like best about the product?
If we want our application to perform better then all our Databases need to be performing at 100%. With Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer, each team member can get a view of how these Databases is performing.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike. This is a great product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer can analyze Databases across Operating Systems and even Virtual Environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer to all organizations and it would become easier to attack the performance-related issue.
DPA makes life so much easier in the Database world.
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is a great way of drawing your attention to the potential or ongoing problems with your DB. You can see at a glance or an even more in depth view if you so wish. It has helped us build trends and resolve problems by simply allowing the program to monitor our DB. If you're looking for a program to monitor and even predict potential issues with you DB this is it.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't integrate into NPM as well as other modules and doesn't offer some of the detailed views and charts that NPM generally offers. Other than that it's great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It prevents downtime or even future downtime, by allowing us to nip potential issues in the bud before they happen. Also a much easier way of seeing the DB etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for software to monitor and bring DB problems to your attention then this is it. It's extremely helpful, not too hard to set up and will give you peace of mind once you're live.
Solarwinds DPA
What do you like best about the product?
I like the monitoring of access and commit times. The amount of I/O tracking is amazing. It helps to quickly drill down to the root cause, which helps in a more expedient determination of our issues. I have also noticed that we get a more heads-up on issues that have yet to be reported to us.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything so far. I really like this feature all around. The main page is a little overwhelming at first for users, but once they learn where everything is located, the main page is perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our biggest problem was tracking down where our issues were with latency and CPU usage. Also, the delay in reporting from end user issues and the database could be delay several minutes.
Got a problem with your database performance, and the DBA blames the network, install DPA!
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to drill down on queries and to download reports with graphs for management.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is still difficult to explain to management that it is NOT the network. The graphs have helped substantially; I wish that there were a "view for dummies" !!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have proved that it is NOT the network. We now have regular quarterly database maintenance windows!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This product really helps you find out what is going on inside the database, it is very granular and has assisted our operation tremendously in cutting down wait times.
DPA - Precise Performance Measurement
What do you like best about the product?
It's very simple to deploy and starts collecting data as soon as we link it to a database. I like that we can drill down to one second interval. Plus it retains the data for 5 years. One of the greatest advantage is that it as minimal impact on the monitored SQL server.
There is the resource adviser which gives us an idea of where the issue probably is and where to start the investigation.
We use this in addition to SolarWinds Orion SAM - which as AppInsight for SQL template. This gives us additional metrics we can look for to see if it's more of a server issue (memory, CPU, storage, etc).
During the first usage we were immediately able to see the high wait times and that it was attributed to the NETWORK_IO. This is something we can investigate and is in our control.
There is the resource adviser which gives us an idea of where the issue probably is and where to start the investigation.
We use this in addition to SolarWinds Orion SAM - which as AppInsight for SQL template. This gives us additional metrics we can look for to see if it's more of a server issue (memory, CPU, storage, etc).
During the first usage we were immediately able to see the high wait times and that it was attributed to the NETWORK_IO. This is something we can investigate and is in our control.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be nice to customize the views, similar to Orion. So different users have a customized view. The user administration is pretty basic and isn't built for multi tenancy. But this tool is primarily for the DBAs and I have not seen anyone else use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Excessive wait times and what's causing it. There are things which can't control, such as badly written queries; however there are things within our control like server memory, CPU allocation, IO bandwidth, storage latency, etc. These are the factors we can concentrate on to improve the overall response time of the database and reduce waits as much as possible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DPA is very detailed in it's analysis - it's really meant for DBAs. I have seen some system admin use it - but not that effectively.
Easy install opens deep doors into your db performance
What do you like best about the product?
DPA is very easy to install and takes little time. The demo was up and running within an hour after spinning up the host VM. This gave our DBA team a change to try it out before we made a purchase. Other tools are a full project to get running and leave agents and tracks all over the environment. DPA does not, if you uninstall there is nothing left behind excect the account used to monitor the databases. These accounts can be quickly deleted and there is no trace of DPA left behind. This is important for beta testing. We were able to test in our Prod env and got a real look at what we were buying. The ease of use makes everyone in the NOC a value adding DB performance monitoring guru. SW products are mostly very user friendly, DPA also fits this description. The data provided is top shelf from engineer, to dev, to IT executive. Built in reports give you great data from day 1 and a little customizing makes you look like a DB Performance Monitoring Master. Low cost solution that gives you a ton of value.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to note as of yet. Since DPA is a newer product from SW I am not sure how support will be if we ever do need to engage. I have to assume it will be similar to the other products in the suite..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Viewing db. issues/health is a breeze now. As a lifetime IT Ops person we tend to learn that app slowness is always the network first, then firewall, then IIS/web server, and possibly the app but never the database. DPA rules out the guessing with a few clicks. Prove its the DB or not the DB instantly. Historical trending is spot on. ROI is outstanding as we have been empowered to better allocate IT funds where needed. DBA team has embraced the tool and made our deployment a huge success. In the end DPA has been a significant win for our IT teams as well as business partners. And its cheap (when compared to other similar products). Also great integration to the Solar Winds platform if you are already there. DPA has been the easiest monitoring tool deployment in my 20 plus year career.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do the demo and see what you think. Install is very quick and simple so its an hour of your time and then turn the DBA team lose. The cost is much lower than most other tools on the market so ROI is not a factor. Install is easy to remove if you don't like the product after the beta and no agents or other tracks left after removal.
Best product for Database and SQL query performance monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
It does Database and SQL query tuning.
Can identify database problems in short time.
Has wide range of database engines to choose from and that too in single installation.
Can identify database problems in short time.
Has wide range of database engines to choose from and that too in single installation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much as much.
It solves my issue of supporting wide range of database engines on one platorm.
It solves my issue of supporting wide range of database engines on one platorm.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitors Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
Has quick response-time analysis to problems.
Can integrated with server and application monitoring(SAM).
Has quick response-time analysis to problems.
Can integrated with server and application monitoring(SAM).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best in class for Database and SQL query performance monitoring and tuning.
A very useful database monitoring tool which eases troubleshooting very much
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about DPA is it identifies the performance issue with in seconds and by focusing on wait stats identifying the root cause is very easy. We can see instantaneously if blocking was occurring at any specific time and what were the root blockers. The good thing is it gets down to minutes and even seconds of time in terms of granularity. It also allows to set up various custom alerts which is very beneficial
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I found to be wanting in solarwinds DPA is the graphs for various metrics can capture time - value pair of only one metric. I can't capture multiple instances of a metric (for example - multiple replication distribution agents latency values ) from with in DPA
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly use DPA for performance monitoring and optimization of our SQL databases. It allows benefits like blocking identification, capturing resource bottlenecks like CPU, memory etc and we set up numerous customized alerts in solarwinds DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The tool is recommended because its very easy to use and rich in feature set
Solarwinds Database Performace Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface. The Status Summary provides the information that is most important at a glance.
What do you dislike about the product?
When drilling down into an issue you can sometimes get lost in the navigation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to identify issues with long running queries and implement fixes.
Hard to correlate single user impact
What do you like best about the product?
Resource correlation with database queries. time slice
What do you dislike about the product?
VM license portion of DPA is ridiculous . We own VMAN and we need to license connectors to that same data twice so DPA can analyze its own version of the same data?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ETL query efficency
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