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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.
The product is very good for Database administrators as it helps to be proactive and monitors DBs.
What do you like best about the product?
The way the product works. It gives the customer a proactive approach to the state and health of their databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment. It's a nice product and very competitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To help the customer analyze the current database server performance on the network. Proactive monitoring is very key and this would help everyone in charge be more attentive to likely happenings on the databases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a very highly appreciated product. I recommend you go for it to help you properly analyze your databases. Especially for the proactive monitoring.
Connections were a little hard
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the ease of setup for connecting it with my NPM
What do you dislike about the product?
I had to open a few more ports than I would have liked
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Watching my SQL performance
One of the best performance analyzers on the market
What do you like best about the product?
The stunningly easy way to see a visual with the expensive queries bringing down system's performance. Works really well with both Oracle and SQLServer. DBAs life has become so easy due to this software
What do you dislike about the product?
Price is on the higher end, but definitely realizes the ROI in the mid-long term. This software becomes a little redundant once everyone moves to a c full cloud storage solution. Trial period for 14 days was too little to evaluate but was able to extend thru the account manager
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Definitely shorter turn around time to resolve issues as this software pin points the bottle necks right away.
There's an alerting mechanism that sets our DBA team to be more proactive
There's an alerting mechanism that sets our DBA team to be more proactive
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate your long term ROI versus short term since you may not get full ROI within 1-2 years. You will however see the results immediately
DPA for non-DBAs
What do you like best about the product?
Integrates well for a robust application monitoring and troubleshooting experience. When using APM and node groups we are able to utilize AppStack views, reports, and dashboards to provide end-users, admins, and execs the right view and information levels.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is not as good as other Solarwinds modules. There is a learning curve even for regular Solarwinds users. The cost and licensing can become a concern.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Critical application monitoring and database connection statistics for real time alerting and troubleshooting.
Reporting for historical root cause analysis
Reporting for historical root cause analysis
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The power of this product is in its ability to scale and implement with other Solarwinds products. I highly recommend having all of your infrastructure be involved in the planning and implementation phases to get the most out of this product.
DataBase Performance Analyzer
What do you like best about the product?
We really like the integration with Database performance analyzer and Perfstack Analysis. Being able to bring the data side by side with some of the other solarwinds functions is what we have been missing.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we could just do a complete integration with the Orion portal. Right now it feels like separate products which they kind of are under the SolarWinds name. If it was completely integrated into the SolarWind website and we didn't have to login to two it would help with the flow for our user base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It really provides our Database team with a central location for visibility into their application. As well as its very easy for non DBA's. We can provide access to our DevOps team and they can help correlate events with the Databases we have in dpa.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its expensive but a great addition to your monitor toolset!!
MSG DB Review
What do you like best about the product?
The analytics from one-pane of glass. While that is often overstated in our industry, the DB menu and customization interfaces have truly been invaluable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial Setup is always the hardest part with any deployment. But with the kind folks at SW Support we managed to get it up and running without issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL resource consumption and process improvement.
We have identified the resource hogs and allocated more to them to lessen the impact on applications and end-user experience.
We have identified the resource hogs and allocated more to them to lessen the impact on applications and end-user experience.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SW Product lines always have something of value and always remember you don't know what you don't know. Having the right tool in place helps prevent any "gotcha" moments.
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