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Excellent insight into what your Databases are really doing
What do you like best about the product?
The simple, yet very powerful interface makes DPA (Database Performance Analyzer) a product that is easy to implement and use. The power of the product gives insight that would otherwise only be available through hours of trial and error testing and processing. SQl can be complex to diagnose, but with DPA that time and effort is greatly reduced.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the product is very complete it can't make users actually pay attention. Our DBAs have access, but don't rely on the product as much as they should. But then this is a shortcoming of pretty much anything.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had some slow performing SQL databases and DPA helped us identify underlying issues that couldn't be solved just be adding more CPU or memory
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Download the free trial and you'll find it easy to install configure and use.
Using Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer we find the root cause of performance issues.
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to see the queries running on the database and how long each takes. With this, we can determine if we need to make the query more efficient or what other action is best such as reindexing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been sitting here racking my brain trying to think of a feature I would like to be added or a database it should support but I cannot think of anything I dislike about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have identified issues in indexing and queries in not only our in-house systems but in applications supplied by third parties. When on the phone with vendors they asked how we were able to find the issue and we told them about Solarwinds DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do what we did. Download the trial version and see the tool for yourself.
Another tool in a great suite of tools!
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how SolarWinds integrates all of their tools under one easy-to-use interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've only used the tool in trial mode as we're evaluating whether it is a fit for us. So far, it's a no brainer. No major hurdles to this point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly we are hoping to use it for digging into problems that we can't easily identify root cause of. As we are small staffed, we don't have a fulltime DBA on site. This tool helps us system admins dig deeper into issues without having quite the in-depth knowledge of SQL as it points us in the right direction.
Deep Dive Analytics for all Engineers
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 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.
DPA changed our life!
What do you like best about the product?
At many client sites, we were stuck, in a perpetual war between the DB, Network and Server teams, playing "Push the Blame" game since past so many years. After installation of DPA, we started knowing exactly, where our database performance was lagging, where the Applications were hogging the resources, where the VMs felt less provisioned. DPA was the best decision we ever took.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are fairly new on DPA, so we don't yet have explored much yet to find out any faults. However, it would be ever better if they expand the Vendors supported on DPA, a few of our SAP devices are not monitored in DPA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As specified above, it helped us solve the eternal war between our IT teams, helps us give the seniors solid proof when we ask for better provisioning of the resources. The reports obtained through DPA are an added bonus.
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.
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