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Database Performance Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and functionality with users
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far, its been a great product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cut down on unneeded network traffic
Incredibly helps with troubleshooting deadlocks and performance bottlenecks
What do you like best about the product?
Performance charts & reports to monitor server activity
Performance trending via main page
Bottlenecks
Blocking and locking
Deadlocks analysis and charts, deadlock details and trending
Error Log alerting
Failover Alerting
Performance trending via main page
Bottlenecks
Blocking and locking
Deadlocks analysis and charts, deadlock details and trending
Error Log alerting
Failover Alerting
What do you dislike about the product?
The query executions plans are not perfectly aligned and not named the same as the source queries under the performance tab which makes it a bit hard to track.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quicker performance overview of multiple environments.
Automatic performance
Automatic performance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Download trial and try it
Production Database Administrator
What do you like best about the product?
performance dashboard that gives a health summary of all the monitored database instances. Alerts can be customized and be used to alert for critical events that are logged in the SQL Server Error log. The ability to replay SQL Server database activity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to read the SQL Agent job failure and identify the actual job that failed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being more proactive to SQL Server performance issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DPA has it all. One tool that can monitor and alert all your SQL Server estate. You can also use it replay events that occur on your servers while you are sleep, it gives you all the events on your servers at at any point in time.
Productivity gains from quick troubleshooting.
What do you like best about the product?
We purchased Confio Ignite (now DPA) as it was called back, hoping to alleviate the time taken when performance issues occurred. Due to budget constraints, we have only one SQL Server DBA which was borderline OK as far as workloads go. However, we would fall behind whenever performance issues popped up or when troubleshooting needed to take place. DPA has worked wonders for our DBA and enables him to rapidly pinpoint where the performance issue is with a SQL Server database. We have also started to use DPA to provide alerts when things are not 100% OK in our SQL Server environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The graphs showing top SQL statements and top waits, etc. are difficult to interpret because the colors used in the bar graphs are shades of the same color. It is often difficult to distinguish between the shades to determine which queries are the top offenders when the shades of red or green or blue are so close together. Note that this is not the case when you log in to look at details. However, the high level charts in emails are difficult to make out. I feel I should not have to log in to be able to make out the details - I am busy enough as it is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. I get quick resolution to performance issues that used to take a lot longer to troubleshoot.
2. I get alerts in advance of something bad about to happen. We do not have to wait for application users to alert us to issues.
3. We have started to use DPA for our Oracle standard edition as it works so well with SQL Server. Although we have Oracle Enterprise Manager for our Oracle Enterprise databases, this does not cover monitoring Oracle Standard Edition databases.
2. I get alerts in advance of something bad about to happen. We do not have to wait for application users to alert us to issues.
3. We have started to use DPA for our Oracle standard edition as it works so well with SQL Server. Although we have Oracle Enterprise Manager for our Oracle Enterprise databases, this does not cover monitoring Oracle Standard Edition databases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are a lot of features in DPA that make it worthwhile in itself. Try the free trail to get a feel for it. Additionally, SolarWinds has built an ecosystem around it. We run SQL Server on VMware and having the ability to monitor the VM on which SQL Server is running is very useful for a DBA (the VMware module adds VM stats to DPA - it is a separately purchasable module and not part of DPA). It lets the DBA independently monitor and verify the performance and state of the VM w/o having to bother the system administrator. This lets the DBA determine whether or not the host VM is having resource issues, etc.
Solarwinds DPA must have
What do you like best about the product?
The amount of information given to you in one place. They make it easy to track down the issue at hand. You need need to do any other queries for trying to find the issue you have. Bring up Solarwinds DPA and you can get all the information you need. There is even a new feature that you can use DPA information and show it along side information from other modules so you have data to compare at a particular time frame.
What do you dislike about the product?
Is there something I should dislike? The Solarwinds interface can be slow at times and I know there are ways to make it more responsive but have not gotten to optimization yet. Sometimes there can be an overwhelming amount of data. They do a really good job at delivering you anything and everything you need, just need the time to sort it all out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Database bottlenecks have been much easier to locate. We recently just had an issue with a system constantly going down and we created a performance analysis comparing data from the server hardware, system, DPA and the network to find the issue. Being able to see all the data we needed including the deep dive into the DB helped us pin down the exact issue and rule out what was not the issue.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
need to give it a try and see all the information it can give you. If you have at least one DB install this software and see what information you can get you never seen before.
Excellent analytical tool for system performance
What do you like best about the product?
The graphs and different options to customize.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I can think of hand that I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to find bottlenecks in DBs
DPA Helps Us Provide Managed Database Services
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to deploy and manage DPA. I also think that SolarWinds provides both fantastic support and has a great community behind their products with Thwack. I also love that it integrates with the Orion suite of products which we also use.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a complicated tool to use if you are not a DBA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a service provider and DPA has helped us provide a better managed database service. We have also received very good client feedback regarding the product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely take advantage of the trial to compare this product against others.
SolarWinds DPA is a must have
What do you like best about the product?
Granular Details
The ability to mark points in time to track changes so you can see performance from that point in time.
The in app help and explanations.
Integrates into the Orion platform.
The ability to mark points in time to track changes so you can see performance from that point in time.
The in app help and explanations.
Integrates into the Orion platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
AD authentication is not as easy to integrate as other SolarWinds products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps to resolve problems faster by showing historical information.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well worth the investment, show this to your DBA's and I guarantee they will want it.
Solarwinds DPA
What do you like best about the product?
I love the integration with the existing Orion platform, as we also use Network Performance Monitor and Network Configuration Management. Agentless architecture. Gives direct insight on database performance, showing top queries, wait times, identifying database problems in real time. We currently only use SQL Server, but as our company grows, it's nice to know that there's cross-vendor support all from this one interface, in case we acquire an office that uses Oracle or MySQL.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to see more input on solutions to the detected problems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting our SQL servers to run more efficiently. As a relatively inexperienced DBA, DPA has helped me more easily identify sources of problematic performance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Database Performance Analyzer is an absolute must for all DBAs, especially in the small to medium business world since we're often multitasking different roles beyond database administration.
Easy to Understand and Use for Everyone
What do you like best about the product?
DPA makes troubleshooting database problems easy for those that do not have a database background. Regardless of your knowledge of database, you will be able to find root cause in DPA.
What do you dislike about the product?
The architecture limits a single poller to about 250 instances. Each poller has it's own corresponding database. I would prefer that there is a higher level parent / child relationship instead of breaking out each pair.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DPA has provided insight into our databases for all areas (Dev, Ops, Tech, etc.). The detail of information has eliminated a lot of troubleshooting time to find root cause. We have used other database tools in the past, but none compare to the value that DPA provided.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DPA provides insights into database problems for all skill levels. If you have never logged into a database before or if you are a database admin, you will find that DPA provides valuable information to help make your job easier.
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