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User friendly application with maximum efficiency.
What do you like best about the product?
This application provides a user friendly interface. I like its colour-coded indicators the most.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found its licence fee on a higher side. It might not suite to small scale companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its real time monitoring helped me to address potential performance issues of our systems.With this I can also collect historical data.
One of the best tool for monitoring the performance of your databases.
What do you like best about the product?
SQL Sentry offers real-time performance monitoring, helping users track SQL Server performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize queries for efficient database operations. It also provides reporting and analysis for insights into performance and resource utilization.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any specific dislikes, but sometimes it can be challenging to integrate for newcomers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can identify slow queries, receive notifications, and address any performance issues in the database environment promptly.
A highly stable solution that helped us locate the performance issues quickly
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer helped us locate the performance issues quickly.
What needs improvement?
The solution’s performance could be improved.
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should include more details on how everything works.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer ten out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer a nine out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The solution’s technical support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used SQL manager.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
We are using the latest version of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.
The solution is deployed on-cloud in our organization.
I would recommend users compare SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer with other software before choosing it.
Overall, I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer a nine out of ten.
Great performance DB tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the variety of options to create reports and then decide proactive and reactive changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not I dislike in this software so far
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lack of documentation about the existing databases and lack of monitoring.
Good Monitoring tool for database issues
What do you like best about the product?
Live blocking is helpful. can select blocks of time to see issues
What do you dislike about the product?
It shows me idle blockers- not helpful and does not capture the Query execution times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
performance issues, It helps us to fix the issue
Comprehensive Monitoring with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
SQL Sentry is a robust monitoring tool, offering in-depth insights into database performance and health. Its ability to provide real-time data and detailed analytics ensures that administrators can stay ahead of potential issues, making proactive decisions to maintain optimal database performance. The user interface is intuitive, and the range of metrics available is excellent. This tool has undoubtedly enhanced our database management capabilities, allowing for more informed decision-making.
What do you dislike about the product?
While SQL Sentry excels in monitoring capabilities, it is not without its flaws. The most noticeable drawback is the latency experienced within the application. This lag can sometimes hinder real-time troubleshooting, especially during critical moments when swift action is required. Additionally, unlike some of its competitors, SQL Sentry falls short in offering predictive space and SQL security patch monitoring features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a Database Administrator, SolarWinds SQL Sentry has been instrumental in enhancing my database management capabilities. It offers real-time insights into database performance, enabling swift identification and rectification of bottlenecks and long-running queries. The proactive alerting system is invaluable, notifying me of potential issues before they escalate, while the historical data analysis aids in recognizing patterns for long-term improvements. Additionally, the deadlock visualization feature simplifies the process of pinpointing and resolving deadlocks. Though it lacks some predictive tools, its storage usage data is crucial for capacity planning. The customizable dashboards streamline my daily tasks, ensuring our databases run efficiently and reducing disruptions, ultimately allowing me to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Excels in identifying various database performance issues, including long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other performance-related issues.
What is our primary use case?
The primary use cases involve identifying database performance issues, such as long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other read-and-write performance-related issues.
Long-running queries are particularly common, and customers find the tool useful for pinpointing such issues.
How has it helped my organization?
DPA has been helpful in providing recommendations to improve DB performance. The Table tuning advisories, causes for long-running queries, reasons for wait-times & deadlocks have helped tune the databases to give optimal performance.
What is most valuable?
Index Advisories, Query Advisories & Table Advisories are the most valuable features of DPA. They provide valuable insights into the issues that cause performance degradation on our databases. Identifying indexation issues, long running queries & tuning tables.
What needs improvement?
There's room for improvement on the dashboarding side. Specifically, the health dashboard of the database instances. Some of my customers deal with a large number of monitored database instances.
It would be beneficial if they could have a single dashboard for instances, for example, from number one to thirty. This way, I could monitor all these 30 instances and quickly identify any performance issues on any of them. The dashboarding capability definitely needs improvement.
In future releases, there should be custom reports and dashboards are crucial. Not everyone needs to see the same page every time. For example, if I'm interested in MYSQL databases, I should have a view that focuses only on MYSQL databases. Customization like this, where users can tailor their dashboards to specific needs, is essential for improving the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for more than 2 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a pretty stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. In my current environment, I haven't faced challenges in adding more instances for monitoring.
The solution is usually highly recommended for larger enterprises. Large companies often face challenges with database administrators struggling to manage a large number of database instances. So, they could benefit from using this product.
For smaller setups, a tool may still be valuable, especially if they have a few database instances to monitor. They might manage with native tools like MSSQL Management Studio, which can provide indications if not detailed, performance statistics. However, the significant benefit of this tool is realized more by larger organizations
How are customer service and support?
The initial support (Level 1) might struggle with DPA issues, but escalated cases receive proper support. There is room for improvement in Level 1 support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We exclusively work with SolarWinds for database monitoring.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. The best part is that SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) can be used as a standalone tool or integrated seamlessly with other SolarWinds tools. For instance, it can integrate with server and application monitoring.
DPA is a specialized tool for databases, while server and application monitoring is a generic tool for all applications, including databases
What about the implementation team?
We mainly deploy the SolarWinds stack for our customers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is fairly reasonable, and it becomes more cost-effective with larger volumes of instances.
Maintenance support is included for the first year, and subsequent years require payment for software and subscriptions.
What other advice do I have?
I would suggest carefully charting out critical database instances and figuring out if the user is facing application slowness issues. If yes, they should first use simple server and application monitoring to determine whether the issues lie outside the database or within. It could be an underlying storage, server, or network-related problem.
To pinpoint network or server-related issues it can get complex. There could be physical server issues, virtual server issues, host layer problems, or underlying storage or SAN environment concerns, if they have any.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. The areas where it currently lags are in reporting and dashboarding. The reports and dashboards are somewhat static, and we cannot create custom dashboards for specific customer needs.
The best tool to monitor SQL servers
What do you like best about the product?
SQL Sentry is truly one centralized solution where you can monitor all SQL server performance, issues, logs, and reports.
The performance metrics SQL Sentry provide is not just bar graph like the other tools display, it is calculated value that shows the true status of the SQL server.
When there is an issue to troubleshoot such as deadlock, you don't need another tool to get the plan or script to analyze, all required information is on one screen.
The performance metrics SQL Sentry provide is not just bar graph like the other tools display, it is calculated value that shows the true status of the SQL server.
When there is an issue to troubleshoot such as deadlock, you don't need another tool to get the plan or script to analyze, all required information is on one screen.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, when there is a WMI issue, it stops working and doesn't get refreshed even after WMI issue is fixed.
It would be better to add refresh button on the server level.
It would be better to add refresh button on the server level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most of SQL server issues can be solved in SQL sentry alone and UI and functions are designed for DBA.
You don't really need a manual to understand or use, you can easily find what you need if you think as DBA.
You don't really need a manual to understand or use, you can easily find what you need if you think as DBA.
Real time and intelligent tool for DB monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
It is powerful and intelligent tool in monitoring log shopping in DC-DR scenario.
This tool keeps track of real time data sync in SQL DB between DC and DR locations.
Alert notifications are almost 100% accurate.
This tool keeps track of real time data sync in SQL DB between DC and DR locations.
Alert notifications are almost 100% accurate.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing dislike about this software, rather it is very useful tool in alert monitoring.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real time monitoring is easy for us with the use of this tool.
Real time alerts are received with highly accuracy.
Real time alerts are received with highly accuracy.
Stable platform with a simple initial setup process
What is our primary use case?
We use the tool for sharing and monitoring Microsoft SQL server databases.
What is most valuable?
The platform solves and prevents delays in receiving answers from databases. We can view several factors and compare queries. We can monitor potential problems for delays from hardware resources as well. We can investigate and tell where the problem is or where the problem could be in the future.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement with the pricing of the platform. It could be cheaper.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working as a partner with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for five months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of this platform is a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, the platform is perfect.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is simple and agentless. It is deployed on-premises in our organization. As it is connected to the databases, we only need to let it work for two weeks or even a little more so it can understand the wait times, and later monitor the changes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate the platform’s pricing a seven out of ten. It could be less expensive.
What other advice do I have?
If you buy the hybrid cloud severability license, you get several modules like network performance, the network traffic analyzer, etc. Additionally, DPA integrates very well with server and application monitoring solutions. There is a product called SAM, which is about monitoring the servers. You can have good integration between those two solutions.
I rate the platform a nine out of ten.
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