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Easy tools and efficient
What do you like best about the product?
Interface friendly, easy customizations, emission reports, creations alerts, instalations and show where have problem in data base, do what it says. Easy for add and remove data base, i think is better do work in option of remove the daba base only monitoring, but not lost your informations, and if after the user beed see her can do.
What do you dislike about the product?
Months ago I have a problem in migrations server, when I try a new integrations with NPM. After more troubelshotter and grant help solarwinds team, all was it ok. Maybe to work in to simplify this process is better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Whem a daba base server os sistem are slow we can see before of the final user, for us this is a great reasons for user DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ah add another tada base for monitoring. EX: Postgre, and Dababase not SQL .
“DPA is much easier to use and far more effective than the other tools I’ve used.”
What do you like best about the product?
Anyone can easily understand even if they are seeing Database parameters for first time like SQL queries Transaction time, Table Locks and tools from Solarwinds are much easier to operate than any other tools.
The new feature introduced in latest releases "Correlation of metrics" is most helpful and easier to find what is causing the issues. can drill down to blocked SQL Server queries to discover why the database server blocked them.Monitoring expensive queries lets you see poorly written queries, queries that take too long to respond, queries affected by CPU time, efficient queries that are delayed by slower queries.
Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis makes me troubleshooting simple.
Gained time to focus on more important or strategic parts of my job.
The new feature introduced in latest releases "Correlation of metrics" is most helpful and easier to find what is causing the issues. can drill down to blocked SQL Server queries to discover why the database server blocked them.Monitoring expensive queries lets you see poorly written queries, queries that take too long to respond, queries affected by CPU time, efficient queries that are delayed by slower queries.
Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis makes me troubleshooting simple.
Gained time to focus on more important or strategic parts of my job.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no negative feedback on Solarwinds Modules except the license part.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SolarWinds DPA provides visibility across application requests, SQL statements, database resources,
host/OS, network, virtualization, and storage performance. DPA incorporates wait-time
analysis so the focus is not only on health, but on the speed at which the database responds to
application requests. With “slow” rapidly becoming the new “broken,” SolarWinds DPA empowers
database administrators, developers, and all IT pros to quickly pinpoint the root cause of
performance issues. It then provides valuable advice for quickly resolving the issues.
host/OS, network, virtualization, and storage performance. DPA incorporates wait-time
analysis so the focus is not only on health, but on the speed at which the database responds to
application requests. With “slow” rapidly becoming the new “broken,” SolarWinds DPA empowers
database administrators, developers, and all IT pros to quickly pinpoint the root cause of
performance issues. It then provides valuable advice for quickly resolving the issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best in the Tools
Database Performance Analyzer review
What do you like best about the product?
The software is easy to upgrade and administer.
SolarWinds provides good support.
The main dashboard shows which database instances are experiencing the greatest wait times. It also shows those with the greatest upward wait times. There is a status summary with counts that are color coded for quickly finding issues. Below that, is a listing of all the instances with a color coded status across multiple categories. From there, you can start drilling down into specific instances and see top SQL statements, Waits, Programs, Users, etc. It is very easy to see trends or if it was just an abnormality. You can see across days or drill down into specific hours. It also provides advisors and quick resources (e.g. wait descriptions).
SolarWinds provides good support.
The main dashboard shows which database instances are experiencing the greatest wait times. It also shows those with the greatest upward wait times. There is a status summary with counts that are color coded for quickly finding issues. Below that, is a listing of all the instances with a color coded status across multiple categories. From there, you can start drilling down into specific instances and see top SQL statements, Waits, Programs, Users, etc. It is very easy to see trends or if it was just an abnormality. You can see across days or drill down into specific hours. It also provides advisors and quick resources (e.g. wait descriptions).
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost for licensing Oracle RAC instances is expensive. Each instance costs $3,495 at list price which adds up quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When new queries are introduced into the environment and are detrimental, we quickly see when it started and the frequency that it occurs.
We also use this to quickly focus on the top queries causing issues instead of isolated incidents.
We also use this to quickly focus on the top queries causing issues instead of isolated incidents.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Should be at the top of your list.
Excellent insight into what your Databases are really doing
What do you like best about the product?
The simple, yet very powerful interface makes DPA (Database Performance Analyzer) a product that is easy to implement and use. The power of the product gives insight that would otherwise only be available through hours of trial and error testing and processing. SQl can be complex to diagnose, but with DPA that time and effort is greatly reduced.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the product is very complete it can't make users actually pay attention. Our DBAs have access, but don't rely on the product as much as they should. But then this is a shortcoming of pretty much anything.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had some slow performing SQL databases and DPA helped us identify underlying issues that couldn't be solved just be adding more CPU or memory
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Download the free trial and you'll find it easy to install configure and use.
Using Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer we find the root cause of performance issues.
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to see the queries running on the database and how long each takes. With this, we can determine if we need to make the query more efficient or what other action is best such as reindexing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been sitting here racking my brain trying to think of a feature I would like to be added or a database it should support but I cannot think of anything I dislike about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have identified issues in indexing and queries in not only our in-house systems but in applications supplied by third parties. When on the phone with vendors they asked how we were able to find the issue and we told them about Solarwinds DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do what we did. Download the trial version and see the tool for yourself.
Another tool in a great suite of tools!
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how SolarWinds integrates all of their tools under one easy-to-use interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've only used the tool in trial mode as we're evaluating whether it is a fit for us. So far, it's a no brainer. No major hurdles to this point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly we are hoping to use it for digging into problems that we can't easily identify root cause of. As we are small staffed, we don't have a fulltime DBA on site. This tool helps us system admins dig deeper into issues without having quite the in-depth knowledge of SQL as it points us in the right direction.
Deep Dive Analytics for all Engineers
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use for non-DBAs and constant improvements to the platform. The product as a whole is very easy to implement in large-scale environments and the current roadmap is following the industry trend of moving relational databases to the cloud (aka, Amazon RDS, etc.)
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of a customizable reporting engine to create reports for external stakeholders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We monitor production databases from across the enterprise; which allows us to correlate incidents through our full stack; from customers > websites > app > db > virtualization > storage > network. The insights we gain from DPA commonly allow us to provide engineers with metrics showing necessary improvements to codebase (developers), database schema (DBAs), and server right-sizing (virtualization and storage engineers).
The end result is FAST identification of root-causes without back and forth finger pointing. The ease of use for non-DBAs is an extremely important feature as well, as we have a wide range of consumers of this data.
The end result is FAST identification of root-causes without back and forth finger pointing. The ease of use for non-DBAs is an extremely important feature as well, as we have a wide range of consumers of this data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take advantage of the free demo and lookup the DPA Training YouTube Playlist on the SolarWinds channel.
DPA review
What do you like best about the product?
We've been using DPA for a couple of years now for our production Oracle instances. It's been incredibly valuable. Within a couple of weeks of installation, we were able to identify and correct an issue with some reporting that had been plaguing us for months. Even though we have and use Grid Control on a daily basis, without that additional wait info that DPA brought to the table we could not nail down the source of the problem. We now use it for our production MS Sql Server and MySQL instances and our DBAs are in it all day making sure everything is running well and identifying and quickly addressing issues that we see. Fantastic tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
After 2 years, I can't say I've found anything that I wish it did that it doesn't already do. Great tool, and the price is outstanding compared to competing products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All the things that happen on a daily basis in any production RDBMS environment. Performance tuning, changing (in some cases dropping) or adding indexes. Identifying poorly performing queries and giving hard data on where the problems lie to our developers so they can correct it. We literally use it all day every day. If you have Orion, the integration with other Orion tools makes end to end analysis and troubleshooting even easier.
We use DPA to troubleshoot on a daily basis.
What do you like best about the product?
The addition of the waits and deadlocks has allowed us to work with our vendors in fixing and streamlining various queries. This in turn has led to faster turn around and the end user able to work more efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Until the latest release there has not been a facility for SQL Availability Groups. However we have just updated to the latest version and are evaluating this functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a few large databases and a lot of customization. We have been able to fix queries that were holding up other processes with the wait time analysis. Also we have extensively used the blockers/deadlocks information to further enhance and improve performance. We have been able to show senior leaders through the reporting the improvements that have been made, and increased end user satisfaction.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Solarwinds allows free trials of their software. Just give it a try and make an evaluation.
DPA changed our life!
What do you like best about the product?
At many client sites, we were stuck, in a perpetual war between the DB, Network and Server teams, playing "Push the Blame" game since past so many years. After installation of DPA, we started knowing exactly, where our database performance was lagging, where the Applications were hogging the resources, where the VMs felt less provisioned. DPA was the best decision we ever took.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are fairly new on DPA, so we don't yet have explored much yet to find out any faults. However, it would be ever better if they expand the Vendors supported on DPA, a few of our SAP devices are not monitored in DPA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As specified above, it helped us solve the eternal war between our IT teams, helps us give the seniors solid proof when we ask for better provisioning of the resources. The reports obtained through DPA are an added bonus.
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