Database Performance Analyzer - Subscription (Linux)

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 's WPM and SAM  modules are what I personally prefer. I am satisfied with the overall performance and how the dashboards are arranged. We are currently using about eleven modules, and I believe all of them are valuable. We are receiving significant value from them, especially the NetFlow Site Analyzer and NetFlow Analyzer, which analyze inflow and network traffic.

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 's WPM and SAM  modules are what I personally prefer. I am satisfied with the overall performance and how the dashboards are arranged. We are currently using about eleven modules, and I believe all of them are valuable. We are receiving significant value from them, especially the NetFlow Site Analyzer and NetFlow Analyzer, which analyze inflow and network traffic.

In terms of technical support, there was a time we experienced issues, but that has been resolved. We encountered a downtime and attempted to contact technical support, which was quite challenging, but that has improved after we reported the issue and everything is now fine. Therefore, we do not have any issues with technical support currently.

Regarding the AI functionality and observability, we tried to understand how the AI functionality works, and I believe there is a gap in our understanding. I do not know if a session can be organized for our team to gain more insight into the AI module or functionality.

For now, the only two aspects that caused me some difficulties are support and AI. Aside from that, everything works flawlessly.

I have been using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for three years.

For accuracy, I always try to compare our insight with our data, and whenever we do that comparison, it is always 100 percent accurate. We are not experiencing any issue of data mismatch or anything of that nature. SolarWinds is reporting accurately.

It is not challenging to use resource queue monitoring as it is straightforward, and there are no concerns. The team is using it and has not reported any issues with it.

Based on my experience, I rate the technical support of SolarWinds a 9.8.

The installation and deployment of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer were straightforward.

It did not take much time; it took just a few hours, specifically about two to three hours.

About three people took part in the deployment. However, only one person was directly involved, and the other two provided support staff to ensure they understood the entire process.

There was a time we compared SolarWinds and Dynatrace . After the POC, we discovered SolarWinds is slightly ahead, and we chose to stick with SolarWinds due to better pricing.

For database performance, we have the module, but I would say we are not really consuming it because we are currently using PostgreSQL . We are exploring this module, but we have not yet started consuming it.

We use historical data analysis with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, and it is excellent. We get up to one or two years of historical data, and it is working very well. We are consuming it effectively.

What I use to evaluate the effectiveness of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer performance is the high availability option, which is very key to our business operations in the banking industry. We have a main SolarWinds installation on our production site and a backup site, so whenever the production site is down, the backup site picks up immediately. We do not experience issues with SolarWinds picking up during downtimes. Based on our evaluation with other vendors, SolarWinds is better in terms of efficiency and cost. I rate this solution a 9.8 overall.

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 's Anomaly Detection feature is applicable for customers who have cloud connect enabled. Most of our customers in the finance space have an internal regulatory requirement that cloud presence must be within the country's borders. Due to this constraint, we have not enabled many of these features, but we have deployed anomaly detection in a couple of customers where regulatory requirements are not as stringent.

Real-time monitoring in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer  is very useful for maintaining database performance, as many of our customers have been using multiple instances of this solution. Fintech companies and stock market companies have been using this very effectively.

Customers do not necessarily use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer's historical data analysis, but predominantly use it to take care of present issues. There might be indexation issues on databases which get resolved in real-time, focusing on current issues.

Resource queue monitoring in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer helps identify and resolve deadlocks. We have been using the SolarWinds Observability  platform to take care of resource monitoring. For database administrators who want to look at resource consumption, they look at SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, but typically, the server teams and infrastructure teams are looking at SolarWinds Observability  platform. We always sell both these solutions in pairs, with SolarWinds Observability stack along with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, where the database teams are mainly looking at SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer while the infrastructure teams are looking at the Observability stack.

There are a whole lot of features in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer that are useful, and the three main ones I find most valuable are the table tuning advisories, index advisories, and query advisory.

Anomaly Detection feature has helped address performance issues, and there is a very recent addition to the feature set of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, which is an AI Query Assist. This is an artificial intelligence-based feature that has been introduced and is a very good feature.

Real-time monitoring in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is very useful for maintaining database performance, as many of our customers have been using multiple instances of this solution. Fintech companies and stock market companies have been using this very effectively.

In my opinion, there is room for improvement for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, and one thing is the creation of custom dashboards. For large customers with many databases, they would like to see dashboards for their set of databases. For example, a bank could have a credit card team, and we should have the ability to create a dashboard only for the credit card team, allowing them to look at only their set of databases and not everybody's. Although this can be done at a high level through user assignment or rights assignment, there is a lack of creation of custom dashboards which is an issue.

In addition to custom dashboard creation, I would like to see other additional features in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer in the future.

I have been using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for almost four to five years now.

Regarding the product's scalability, my impression is that it is easy to scale it up or scale it out.

I would rate their technical support a little lower than expected, so there is room for improvement.

When it comes to competition for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, I wonder about their initial setup and whether it is straightforward or if you might need some help.

Regarding the pricing of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, I find it reasonable.

Metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer's performance optimizations is an important consideration that I take into account.