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Easy install opens deep doors into your db performance
What do you like best about the product?
DPA is very easy to install and takes little time. The demo was up and running within an hour after spinning up the host VM. This gave our DBA team a change to try it out before we made a purchase. Other tools are a full project to get running and leave agents and tracks all over the environment. DPA does not, if you uninstall there is nothing left behind excect the account used to monitor the databases. These accounts can be quickly deleted and there is no trace of DPA left behind. This is important for beta testing. We were able to test in our Prod env and got a real look at what we were buying. The ease of use makes everyone in the NOC a value adding DB performance monitoring guru. SW products are mostly very user friendly, DPA also fits this description. The data provided is top shelf from engineer, to dev, to IT executive. Built in reports give you great data from day 1 and a little customizing makes you look like a DB Performance Monitoring Master. Low cost solution that gives you a ton of value.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to note as of yet. Since DPA is a newer product from SW I am not sure how support will be if we ever do need to engage. I have to assume it will be similar to the other products in the suite..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Viewing db. issues/health is a breeze now. As a lifetime IT Ops person we tend to learn that app slowness is always the network first, then firewall, then IIS/web server, and possibly the app but never the database. DPA rules out the guessing with a few clicks. Prove its the DB or not the DB instantly. Historical trending is spot on. ROI is outstanding as we have been empowered to better allocate IT funds where needed. DBA team has embraced the tool and made our deployment a huge success. In the end DPA has been a significant win for our IT teams as well as business partners. And its cheap (when compared to other similar products). Also great integration to the Solar Winds platform if you are already there. DPA has been the easiest monitoring tool deployment in my 20 plus year career.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do the demo and see what you think. Install is very quick and simple so its an hour of your time and then turn the DBA team lose. The cost is much lower than most other tools on the market so ROI is not a factor. Install is easy to remove if you don't like the product after the beta and no agents or other tracks left after removal.
DPA personal review
What do you like best about the product?
I personally love the real time aspect to troubleshooting. It is often something other products can deflect. It fully integrates into other Solarwinds products like NPM. Cross vendor support is also a great benefit, SQL, Oracle, MySQl, SAP, and cloud offerings.
The live charts are worth their weight in gold. being able to see and then go back in time to check before the issue happened is wonderful and one of its best features. I have used other products that over look this and the fact you can alter the granularity yourself is great.
The live charts are worth their weight in gold. being able to see and then go back in time to check before the issue happened is wonderful and one of its best features. I have used other products that over look this and the fact you can alter the granularity yourself is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
some of the features are needed to get the most out of the other solarwinds products. you often feel like you have to buy the set to get the most befit.The cost of the product can quickly rise. The start price is great but in reality its vastly higher when you factor in a larger environment. I know its cheaper then other solutions however when you factor in you really need other modules to make sure you're getting most out of it (SAM) it really does rack up the cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
bottlenecks. It comes with a lot of of the box and is able to detect issues I wasn't aware of. It makes you seem like a Database performance specialist even with limited knowledge. We have seen a few speed issues just from the real time performance charts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
personally I would use this in conjunction to owning the other solar winds products. NPM and SAM are a must
DPA a good solution to monitor performance of your Databases.
What do you like best about the product?
SQL query tuning advice.
Identifies database problems in realtime .
DPA can monitor database instances that you manage running on physical or virtual servers. It can also monitor Amazon RDS instances hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Identifies database problems in realtime .
DPA can monitor database instances that you manage running on physical or virtual servers. It can also monitor Amazon RDS instances hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall a very good but as all products have some flaws, it too has one which is sometimes experiences slowness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifies Blocking sessions and deadlock for a query.
Generates an alert for a query taking longer to execute.
Gives an advice for better query execution.
Minimum system requirements.
Generates an alert for a query taking longer to execute.
Gives an advice for better query execution.
Minimum system requirements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
My recommendation to others considering DPA is that they should install a 15 days evaluation version of DPA, to checkout if this product meets their requirements.
Best product for Database and SQL query performance monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
It does Database and SQL query tuning.
Can identify database problems in short time.
Has wide range of database engines to choose from and that too in single installation.
Can identify database problems in short time.
Has wide range of database engines to choose from and that too in single installation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much as much.
It solves my issue of supporting wide range of database engines on one platorm.
It solves my issue of supporting wide range of database engines on one platorm.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitors Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
Has quick response-time analysis to problems.
Can integrated with server and application monitoring(SAM).
Has quick response-time analysis to problems.
Can integrated with server and application monitoring(SAM).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best in class for Database and SQL query performance monitoring and tuning.
A very useful database monitoring tool which eases troubleshooting very much
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about DPA is it identifies the performance issue with in seconds and by focusing on wait stats identifying the root cause is very easy. We can see instantaneously if blocking was occurring at any specific time and what were the root blockers. The good thing is it gets down to minutes and even seconds of time in terms of granularity. It also allows to set up various custom alerts which is very beneficial
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I found to be wanting in solarwinds DPA is the graphs for various metrics can capture time - value pair of only one metric. I can't capture multiple instances of a metric (for example - multiple replication distribution agents latency values ) from with in DPA
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mainly use DPA for performance monitoring and optimization of our SQL databases. It allows benefits like blocking identification, capturing resource bottlenecks like CPU, memory etc and we set up numerous customized alerts in solarwinds DPA.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The tool is recommended because its very easy to use and rich in feature set
Solarwinds Database Performace Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
I like the interface. The Status Summary provides the information that is most important at a glance.
What do you dislike about the product?
When drilling down into an issue you can sometimes get lost in the navigation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to identify issues with long running queries and implement fixes.
Great Tool for Performance Troubleshooting
What do you like best about the product?
Very clean interface that makes identifying problem queries easy to spot
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with Orion platform is half baked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance slowdowns and optimization.
Solarwinds DPA Review
What do you like best about the product?
You are able to select different types of data to be analyzed and you are able to see the results easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
It seemed a bit slow to update the data, but that may be because it was a demo product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to analyze our VMs that store our database and the efficiency of them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the demo to see if it will suit your needs
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
It gives you an overall insight to all databases with alerts and a real understanding what's happening. If you are constantly battling clueless issues or lack of alerts and information then this is a real game changer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Load capacity is sometimes slow even though hardware requirements are met. (not a huge issues though)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A lot of time is saved every day and even maintenance time has been reduced. Alert options and customisation really helps narrow down what problems you want to me notified of etc. Down time is often minimised or even completely eradicated.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It removes a lot of stress from day to day work. Administratively its excellent to be able to find issues or errors before it causes something more serious. Additionally there is no need to be constantly checking things as the alerting and reporting helps show trends to prevent future problems.
Database Analysis at its best
What do you like best about the product?
Various aspects of the DPA including queries that take up the most Wait Times, Deadlock conditions, compute resources consumed by the DB instance like CPU, Mem, and the best part, even Virtual infrastructure resources.
With recent additions to the NPM + DPA integration, PerfStack allows cross-module correlation helping identify issues with network or server or DB at the same time
With recent additions to the NPM + DPA integration, PerfStack allows cross-module correlation helping identify issues with network or server or DB at the same time
What do you dislike about the product?
The SolarWinds DPA Reporting feature currently does not allow customization.
Standard out-of-the-box reports are not suitable for all environments.
The product should include a Report writing functionality for custom reports.
Standard out-of-the-box reports are not suitable for all environments.
The product should include a Report writing functionality for custom reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our DB instances run most of the business applications and DB Administrators are required to provide an optimal performance of the DB and hence the Business Apps. Insights into DB performances are thereby helping us resolve Biz App performance issues and ensuring that Biz Apps run at desired performance levels.
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