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quick, easy and complete inside view
What do you like best about the product?
easy installation, easy DB connection, direct detailed view out of box
What do you dislike about the product?
short test license range not within 30day Solarwinds standard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
slow DB performance with business impact and no visibility where the bottle neck was
DPA is an amazing resource
What do you like best about the product?
The quickness of resolution of our issues as well as the transparency it gives across teams. We can dig into what the root issue is easily with DPA. The monitoring feature is second to none and allows us to find the issues when comparing to a baseline.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really nothing that I dislike so far about the DPA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Solarwinds DPA to track performance issues in our environment. It has been a great tool so far.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Implement this analyzer as it will greatly benefit your organization.
Great insight to real time stats
What do you like best about the product?
The most beneficial aspect for me was the storage stats. Having a real time chart to read reads, writes and latency allows us to have a more proactive approach to response times.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't too much to dislike however adding more administrative control functions would expand on the product's functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visually seeing trends in peak performance utilization has allowed for more scalable maintenance plans.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The product does everything as advertised and more.
Great Insight into your databases
What do you like best about the product?
Charts and diagrams are always the best way to demonstrate to people who don't understand the details what's going on.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not 100% integrated into Orion yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proof that SQL Express is not usable for production systems
Been using Solarwinds DPA module for 3 years
What do you like best about the product?
I love the detailed information you are able to pull regarding the databases, their servers and the whole virtual environment. When syncing with NPM, it helps complete that "single pane of glass" view of your environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, there is nothing I would say I "dislike" about this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to see where our problem/latency spots are with our collection of Solarwinds products we have applied to the environment.
An Excellent Diagnostic Tool for Systems and DBA Collaborative Efforts
What do you like best about the product?
The wait-centric focus of DPA allows monitoring professionals to speak in meaningful terms to DBAs and other DB professionals, quickly leading to common ground and productive output. In addition, the deep integration of the product with Solarwinds' NPM platform allows for correlated views, reports, and data gathering from the front end to the app to DB in a seamless fashion.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much - the standalone DPA console is a trifle limited for granular reporting and alerting. Much of this limitation goes away when integrated with NPM, however.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our primary goal was to identify bottleneck causes in weekly, month-end, and year-end processes. Being able to isolate the specific queries causing bottlenecks - and communicating those things effectively to our apps/DB teams - has significantly improved our execution level and reduced firefighting dramatically. The establishment of baselines for these processes also helps us be more efficient in differentiating between normal and abnormal ops.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're a Solarwinds shop - or even if you're not - this product is worth your time. If eliminating the 'invisible' problems of Oracle/SQL/etc. is important to your business, DPA will help you get there.
Its a fast and efficient tool that reduces troubleshooting time
What do you like best about the product?
It keeps everything in a single pane of glass. Allow intergration with other solarwinds tools like Network Performance Monitor that we use in our organizations. It quickly shows you a possible root cause analysis where you can further troubleshoot and issue and shows trends on potential issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Doesnt really allow me to analyse between a database and a web application that uses that database on a single pane of glass. I would have to move between windows to do an analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It monitor core databases which affects customer experience.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a fast efficient and easy tool that can allow you to troubleshoot database performance and statistics.
DPA solarwinds module
What do you like best about the product?
The depth of the platform exceeds the current platform we are now using. With blocking, wait times, etc. detailed, the tool proves useful.I also like the prospect of integration with other solarwinds modules. PerfStack integration with DPA in demos appeared to be extremely useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price point is still proving to be too prohibitive for inclusion in our monitoring stack. I believe it was available at one time on AWS at a per GB use price point that showed promise for usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With a trial demo, we proved that we could find troubling issues in our SQL stack.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you can get past the price point, all my DBA were stating that they would have loved to have this product over what we are currently using.
SolarWinds DPA
What do you like best about the product?
Gives direct insight to how your database(s) are performing. Showing you top queries, wait times, etc. This product gives amazing detail on how your database is responding to the data reads and writes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't give direct suggestions on how to fix problems detected
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to get our SolarWinds instance to run faster and smoother. It has helped me improve the DB performance.
DPA the discussion killer
What do you like best about the product?
The view of the whole stack from the Database to the disk. This helps a lot to find bottlenecks. Also the Wait- and Blocking-Views are very helpful in finding problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The report engine of the DPA should be like the Orion report engine. The AD user and group administration could be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We searching for slow running SQL-Queries and try to find solutions for that. We also use DPA if we face suddenly performance problems.
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