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I have worked with DBA and they love the DPA
What do you like best about the product?
Showing the colorful graph and root caus
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't work with it but the DBA did not complain but liking it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Normally, they blame everything on DB and by using DPA, will find the rood cause
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I tried recommending it but the DBA already was using it in smaller lincences
Very useful utility
What do you like best about the product?
The integration with the Orion platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that is would also work with Microsoft Exchange.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly performance related issues
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure this is the product you want.
Improving Database Performance
What do you like best about the product?
Identify database problems in real-time
Integration with the Orion Platform
Easy to install
Integration with the Orion Platform
Easy to install
What do you dislike about the product?
Did not provide exact procedures or suggestions on how to improve on database performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solarwinds Orion platform has been running slow and does not provide real-time information sometimes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's ability to integrate with the Orion Platform is its selling point.
Managing Database Health with DPA
What do you like best about the product?
The monitoring features and the ability to set up notifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost seems a bit high and the licensing in general is a bit confusing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability for monitoring and notification when we need to add resources to database servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are trying to improve the performance of your databases, use DPA.
DPA
What do you like best about the product?
The email reports are great for seeing what is going on. The console is easy to use and provides real time data. Has helped figure out lots of problem areas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really don't have any dislikes. Some times the renewing the license requires contact with Solarwinds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL queries has been the most problems we see. Also found that we needed to add resources to our servers.
Best database performance monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you are able to see everything involved with the databases. It is very easy to see what queries are taking the most time and you can see the exact query that is being executed. It is easy to setup and you can get monitoring going very quickly. The performance of the actual DPA application is very fast. Upgrades are very quick as well. They usually only take about 20 minutes. It supports all common DB languages. A wizard allows the adding of database instances very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product needs more integration into the Orion platform, especially for reporting. It would be nice if the alerts and reporting were setup like the Orion platform. This product was purchased by SolarWinds and does not yet have the same feel as the Orion platform. I am sure this is on the radar and will take time. I would also like to customize the charts more that are pulled from DPA, in the Orion interface. It also needs to have some sort of agentless monitoring. The cost can be significant when monitoring a lot of instances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it mainly to solve problems with application performance. Often, it is the application's database that is the issue. DPA shows us that it really isn't even the the actual database, but improperly written queries.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to see database performance and more than you will ever use, use this product. You wont be sorry.
Great Product, Very Worth IT
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. The UI is very easy to use and get to know.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve with using the product, but not steep. The community and staff provide great help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cutting down the customer wait times. Ensuring everything is running optimally.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is definitely a great product. At the very least it needs to be on your list to trial if you are in the market for such a product! Solarwinds products in general are all great!
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.
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