SolarWinds Database Observability Reviews & Product Details

Database Observability is a type of monitoring solution designed to help users maintain optimal performance of their databases by providing insights into their operational health. This solution is tailored for database teams who require a robust tool to monitor, diagnose, and optimize their database systems, ensuring they function efficiently across various environments, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Targeted primarily at database administrators, DevOps teams, and IT professionals, Database Observability addresses the critical need for real-time insights into database performance. Its capabilities are essential for organizations that rely heavily on data-driven decision-making and require their databases to operate without interruption. With the increasing complexity of database environments, including hybrid setups that combine on-premises and cloud resources, the need for a comprehensive observability solution has never been more pressing. The key features of Database Observability include the ability to monitor key performance metrics, which allows users to track the health of their databases continuously. By detecting early warning signs of potential issues, teams can proactively address problems before they escalate into more significant disruptions. This feature is crucial for maintaining service availability and ensuring that end-users experience minimal downtime. In addition to monitoring, the solution offers diagnostic capabilities that enable users to rapidly identify and resolve performance challenges, such as slow queries and resource bottlenecks. This functionality is vital for maintaining optimal performance levels and ensuring that databases can handle increasing workloads efficiently. Furthermore, the optimization features allow users to fine-tune their database performance through query optimization, effective indexing strategies, and better resource utilization, ultimately leading to greater scalability. One of the standout aspects of Database Observability is its ability to provide a unified view of databases across various environments. This cross-environment visibility ensures that database teams can manage their systems effectively, regardless of where they are hosted. By consolidating insights into a single platform, users can streamline their monitoring processes and enhance their overall operational efficiency, making Database Observability a critical tool for modern database management.

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SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

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SolarWinds Database Observability Community

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English

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Pricing provided by SolarWinds Database Observability.

Flexible Database Performance Analyzer for virtualized environments or SQL Sentry license per instance

$1,399.00

Per Year

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SolarWinds Database Observability Demo - Cross-platform Database Home Page

Single-pane-of-class visualization of your cloud and on-premise databases.

SolarWinds Database Observability Demo - Database Instance Monitoring

DPA can monitor database instances you manage on both physical and virtual servers or Amazon RDS instances hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

SolarWinds Database Observability Demo - Table, Query, Index Advisors

Query advisors provide information to help you improve the performance of a specific query, including what type of waits were responsible for significant wait time, whether the statement was blocked by other sessions, and whether execution plans include potentially expensive steps such as full ta...

SolarWinds Database Observability Demo - Database Instance Resources

Use the resource metrics in DPA to monitor the health of your database and to correlate contention for resources with increases in database wait times

SolarWinds Database Observability Demo - Response Time Analysis

DPA graphically shows you where the longest wait times are, and it also identifies time periods when wait times that are longer than expected (anomalies)

SQL Sentry Quick Demo

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/19/2019

"Great Database Performance Analyzer, tells you what you need to know."

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

DPA is great for tracking down that one rouge query that is using up 80% of your servers resources. Look a graph showing hourly wait times and drill in from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very complex product and lots of levels of information, but that's to be expected in this area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

It's a good product for monitoring DB wait times. if you want to see what's running on a DB server use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use DPA to track Database performance and to understand exactly what's running on our DB servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yash K.

Frontend Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/3/2019

"The quality of support I get is brilliantly to "

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Brilliant and most effective with use.

Great and the reports are impressive..

I just love how makes data visualization so simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Good and very nice with data visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James C.

IT Service Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/8/2019

"Super DB Analyzer"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The simple user interface is easy to monitor the Database Performance and to take action when required. There were no bugs during the setup of SloarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. The ability to find the root cause of a problem is easy using the SloarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

After using it for many years, I can't seem to find a reason to dislike SloarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I highly recommend it. It make the monitoring team's lives easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very efficient and Solarwinds has many other applications that can be merged with the DB Performance Analyzer to make it a combo power tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/2/2018

"Great Product to keep your Databases in check"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Ease of use and great dashboard for display of performance charts.

This was easy to setup and get running.

Lots of useful information on the solar winds Thwack users form.

Graphical chats and UI work well and make it easy for us to spot an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The price is a little high but the it does have a lot of features for the price ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Ensure it meets all requirements> it is easy to setup and integrate into an existing solar winds environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

We looked at this tool to prevent outages caused by poor database performance. We can proactively monitor everything to ensure the sites are up, functional and running efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ganesh R.

Software Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/7/2019

"The best DB Performance Analyzer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

With the Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer, we can detect bottlenecks and try to fix any complex Database related issues. A great feature is that we can optimize any database anywhere. With the Visual Dashboards, the root cause can be detected easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I don't see anything wrong with Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer. It does what is designed to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer is really a must-have for an organization which has multiple application servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer can be easily scaled to monitor 1000s of Databases at the same time across any platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/8/2019

"Efficient"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

SQL query tuning. Great. Simple interface, easy to use and review performance. Query performance allows historical details which is a great feature. It's able to identify performance issues quickly. Easy to upgrade and administer and have had few issues with implementation. No bugs to report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Expensive product; although, it does have a lot of great features. Best for larger companies with bigger budgets and needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

A cost-benefit analysis is key. Database Performance Analyzer has several features that lead to greater efficiency and better cross-team collaboration, however the upfront costs of implementation may not be worth it for smaller companies. It's a great product worth a trial period at the very least. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

We sought this product out for monitoring database in hybrid environments, and it has worked well so far. It speeds up resolution time but has not yet paid for itself, so the benefits haven't yet outweighed the costs. Time will tell, but I'm hopeful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josh O.

Senior Database Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/21/2019

"Database monitoring that works"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

All the details and metrics it collects and provides. The reporting is very helpful and the ability to zoom in collectively on multiple metrics is very beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Seems to be an ongoing issue with maintenance windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen J.

Senior Database Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/16/2019

"Product Not Fit For Purpose on OLTP SQL"

0/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Intuitive/easy to use. Easy to administrate once it has been set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The tool captures execution time by using the plan hash – which works fine for read queries, but for transactional DML, it's likely that most of the time it is the COMMIT TRAN that takes the bulk of the wait time (WRITELOG wait) – as there is no plan for a COMMIT, DPA doesn’t capture the stats for it, so it can’t be used to determine if an increase in wait time is the result of higher executions, or something else. Given that execution times and execution counts for the stored procs (containing the ‘COMMIT TRAN’ statements to which I refer above) are available in the DMV, I asked Solarwinds if they were planning to address this and their response was that “there is nothing to fix”/”speak to Microsoft”.

We are looking to drop them as a vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mario K.

Softwareingenieur

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/9/2019

"Best Remote Database Performance Analyzer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

My favorite thing about Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer is the simple interface. We use the data base performance analyser from Solarwind to monitor all of our environments for performance problems affecting our SQL databases. This software helps us to identify real-time performance problems such as errors, long-running queries or problems that are blocking the system. There's no better tool to analyze server statistics. I like the detection and reporting of deadlock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

There are not a lot of thinks I dislike about Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer, but one of them is that it has problems when you switch across domains. I would also prefer to have different dashboards for job performances, task creation and parameter tuning.

I also heared that it is way to expenive for small companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I can recommend Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for anybody who can afford it. I takes some time to learn but once you have it set up it will show you a lot of real time data and protection errors/ bottlenecks. Also read through the documentation before asking for help as the support is very expensive as I was told by my colleges. The documention is often good enough to solve the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer is an excellent tool when you have questions about database problems. It is excellent in identifying performance problems in real time. It prevents downtime or even future downtime by detecting possible problems prior to occurrence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andreas K.

Software Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/7/2019

"Great Visibility of each Database Performance"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

If we want our application to perform better then all our Databases need to be performing at 100%. With Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer, each team member can get a view of how these Databases is performing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

There is nothing to dislike. This is a great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I highly recommend Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer to all organizations and it would become easier to attack the performance-related issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SolarWinds Database Observability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer can analyze Databases across Operating Systems and even Virtual Environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.