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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.
Database Performance Analyzer for SQL DB
What do you like best about the product?
This DPA is real RCA tool which we are evaluating in our SQL DB and some third party DB.The good thing is that we can monitor our heterogeneous system with DPA.It help us to find the app tuning with front of app or DB side and help us fixing the problem. Previously we have to struggle to analyses the performance data and tuning the things, but now it is just simple click to resolve all hurdles in bw.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost and integration with other performance tool which only can integrate with Solarwinds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IIS and DB tuning ,RCA to rectify the problem is very much important.
Database Performance Analyzer - Keep your DB in safe hands
What do you like best about the product?
Drill down into your SQL Server database to pinpoint the root cause of poor performance.
When a SQL Server database instance includes Availability Groups (AGs), the DPA homepage provides the following information:
The AG status icon AG_status_icons.png identifies database instances that include AGs. The color of the dot indicates the AG status.
An AG status summary box shows the number of database instances with partially healthy or unhealthy AGs. As with other status summary boxes, click the filter next to a status to display only those instances.
AG_filter.png
When you drill in to a database instance that includes AGs, click the AG Status tab to see the status of AGs, databases, and replicas, including synchronization and failover status information.
When a SQL Server database instance includes Availability Groups (AGs), the DPA homepage provides the following information:
The AG status icon AG_status_icons.png identifies database instances that include AGs. The color of the dot indicates the AG status.
An AG status summary box shows the number of database instances with partially healthy or unhealthy AGs. As with other status summary boxes, click the filter next to a status to display only those instances.
AG_filter.png
When you drill in to a database instance that includes AGs, click the AG Status tab to see the status of AGs, databases, and replicas, including synchronization and failover status information.
What do you dislike about the product?
wrong parsed query in mysql slave
Alerting needs to be more crisp
Custom Report for Resources for a Program in DPA
Automatic exporting for DPA logs should be added into newer versions
Alerting needs to be more crisp
Custom Report for Resources for a Program in DPA
Automatic exporting for DPA logs should be added into newer versions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently all of our DB's are under DPA monitoring.
Its ease of use makes itself more prompt than the other tools.
The application is mostly used for the AWS environments.
Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.5) is not supported with DPA 10.2.579
Its ease of use makes itself more prompt than the other tools.
The application is mostly used for the AWS environments.
Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.5) is not supported with DPA 10.2.579
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The UI and ease of use is better with SolarWinds DPA
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