Database Performance Analyzer - Subscription (Linux)
SolarWinds | 2024.2Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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A must have tool for DBAs
What do you like best about the product?
Clear overview of multiple servers
Real time monitoring
History views
Pinpoint to trouble queries
Cool reports
Real time monitoring
History views
Pinpoint to trouble queries
Cool reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Custom time interval for Trend view is too restricted, would like to see more days of data beyond 30 day window
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides DBA with clear view of server and database performance and makes it possible to dynamically manage infrastructure resources and pinpoint performance issues quickly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Alerts are not easy to set and we often get false alarms.
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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 Keeps SQL Running Smoothly.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the query advice tab. It is great to have specific issues highlighted and ready for review. The real-time tab is always useful for our help desk team. Solarwinds Thwack user community is full of amazing resources and tips for getting the most out of your DPA install. You really can't say enough about Solarwinds' after install support for their products.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that we only have a single instance licensed. We regularly repoint DPA to whatever database is generating users calls. It'd be much better if we were able to monitor all of our databases at once. Management consistently balks at the cost of additional licensing (this seems to be a regular concern with our Solarwinds products).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My employer does application and database hosting. We recently used DPA to identify an issue with a query more quickly than the 3rd party application developers were able to. Our client was very pleased with our speed to resolution, especially considering the so called experts were still chasing their tails.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is worth comparing this to the Idera offerings. They also do a nice job monitoring SQL performance.
Database Performance Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
Like many educational institutions, our budget does not allow for the purchase of Oracle's Diagnostics and Tuning packages. SolarWinds' DPA gives customers the insight into their environment that Oracle *should* provide, but doesn't.
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't really found anything I much dislike yet!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the past, we didn't really have the ability to be proactive and solve problems before they became huge. With DPA, we can keep an eye on performance and typically know when something is wrong and can fix it before our users even notice anything!
DPA is everything your DBA desires
What do you like best about the product?
Even though SQL server has the information available to your DBA, it doesn't compile and present it the same way that DPA does. Not only that, but you can title specific sql actions to maintain a visual on the actions that are common and causing the highest wait times.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that the trial was only 14 days... `
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have already realized over 10 different issues that we were able to quickly resolve across multiple departments simply by letting it do it's thing. My DBA was giddy with excitement and we totally ended up purchasing it because of the impact it had on our business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The setup is pretty simple... just make sure you have the right credentials for each instance!
Senior systems Analyst
What do you like best about the product?
ease of use, easy integration, simple maneuvering through windows.
What do you dislike about the product?
some of the menus are not as intuitive as necessary, unintegrating the trial product was problematic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
application issues
Recommendations to others considering the product:
trial/evaluate before purchasing
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.
Database performance ananlyzer has saved me multiple times
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact at any time, when someone approaches me about an issue I can bring up solid evidence of an issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike is somehow it's hard to find what I need quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving slowness issues in databases by identifying bottlenecks and other issues.
Great product, in depth detail, perfect for your database administrators.
What do you like best about the product?
The in depth detail it provides, and the quick ability to find problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The required separate server, should be apart of primary solarwinds server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application performance issues, top slow queries. The overrall ability to monitor, ddiagnoise and resolve problems within databases, helps teach uninformed database administrators and provides great insight for experienced database admins.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try an evaluation, and witness the impact in time it can save to troubleshoot problems for a variety of things.
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