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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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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Umita R.

Backend Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2019

"Best Analyzer for Database"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

DPA helps in identifying the root cause of the issue with the help of walt-time analysis. It's User Interface is very nice and intuitive and is very easy to navigate through. It also helps in pointing out what is slowing down our Servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

We really like DPA and would really recommend it to others, However DPA should have added more alerting capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sameh L.

Data Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/23/2019

"The Best Database Performance Analyzer"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a great software. I like the ability to see current activities from multiple aspect, the quick solve for issues for my company severs. I love how the software narrow down to the right place of root cause. Tagging and Annotation is another great, and the ability to see past details is very helpful while working on Query performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

There are some problems with the software, one of the issues is that I can’t search the specific text on any of the sub screen when drill down to session, SQL, machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Solarwinds software is the best database performance analyzer I have ever seen and I definitely recommend it over all competing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It’s one of the best tools if you need a database performance analyzer, we use it now in my workplace. It’s perfect for finding, analyzing, solving any type of SQL Database issues.it speeds up the process that increases the overall cycle time for resolving any Database issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John R.

Senior Systems Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/23/2018

"DPA: Good Tool for Historical Reviews (SQL Server)"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

• Ability to review previous SQL Server queries/performance.

• Review poor-performing queries over time to know areas to focus on.

• Find out what was going on when we get call(s) from users about slow performing queries (or underlying reports).

• Ability to review blocking issues from a historical point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

• Inability to review SQL Server from a "resources" point of view and drill down into specific queries details.

• Inability to "group" queries together when the "filters" (i.e., where clauses) change but the overall query is the same.

• Cannot easily find a query using a "text search" without detailed knowledge of the underlying SQL database "repository" that is used to display the data in product.

• The tool, but itself, is *very* light on the resources side (CPU/memory/disk) compared to other vendors. You will need to purchase additional SolarWinds tools ($$). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

There are many good tools on the market. We chose Solarwinds DPA (formerly Confio Ignite) due to the ease we could connect our SQL Server "repository" (internal network) to "cloud based" SQL servers without having to poke a lot of holes (open ports) in our internal network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ability to respond to poor server performance, mostly from calls from users who are having performance issues. We have been able to capture the poor performing SQL, review it and make various tuning adjustments (improve the overall query, indexes, etc.).

Most of the time, you do not get a call about performance when it is happening... you get calls/emails after the fact... which is one of the reasons for a good SQL performance monitoring tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/21/2019

"Very Detailed"

3/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The customer support for SentryOne is the absolute best. They respond immediately and will work through any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

We have had issues using the maintenance windows groups (resolved). It is sometimes hard to find customized alerts as there are so many layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I would recommend SentryOne for large enterprise companies. The reporting piece is well developed. And most of all their support team is extremely helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using SentryOne to monitor over 100 SQL instances. The query plan explorer is a great tool as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

kaka t.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2018

"Solarwinds for IT Management "

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Master database and SQL query tuning counselors . Recognize database issues continuously . Cross-vendor database bolster from a solitary interface . Integration with the Orion Platform . These are the best things when using Solarwinds and which also helps in improve the performance . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The Solarwinds solutions starts at $1995 which is quite costly as compared to Nagios XI which is cheaper and also has great web accessible interface . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

It provides quick, easy, and low-effort installation/configuration and administration as compare to other competitor like Nagios XI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We mostly use it to find solution for complex problems because when teams collaborate , they needs to solve problem faster and efficiently . Also we can monitor database in hybrid environments which is quite helpful . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/19/2019

"it is easy to use and the detail of monitoring with solarwinds orion platform or products. "

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

once you are going to use DPA the tuning future is very helpful in showing areas that must be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It can be a complicated if you are not using solarwinds database performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/21/2017

"Life Saver"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I liked being able to monitor SIDs on database instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

A small dislike but it would be the cost of the product. Oracle instances come with a premium cost vs SQL instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

This product is great for a team that wants to add it to their Solarwinds Portfolio, especially if Database monitoring is a need. There are other Database monitoring tools, but this will allow a small IT team to have one pane of glass for troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This will be beneficial for those with minimal database experiences. In tough situations, it is good for a non DB person to be able to dive into this product and see potential issues like long running queries that need to be killed that cause service degradation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjeevan S.

Associate Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/18/2019

"Good to go with the product"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

User friendly to use, customize to the requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Implementation process took long time to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/21/2019

"SolarWinds DPA is an Excellent at its job - Performance Monitoring "

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Reporting, the detailed information regarding the issues it is showing.

Excellent for trending SQL Performance over time.

Excellent for monitoring deadlocks and blocking.

Super clear Interface

Good for trending SQL query changes over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

A better explanation of how to use the SQL plan should be implemented.

Implement recommendations from the console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt R.

Matt Rees

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/16/2018

"DPA makes life so much easier in the Database world."

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The UI is a great way of drawing your attention to the potential or ongoing problems with your DB. You can see at a glance or an even more in depth view if you so wish. It has helped us build trends and resolve problems by simply allowing the program to monitor our DB. If you're looking for a program to monitor and even predict potential issues with you DB this is it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It doesn't integrate into NPM as well as other modules and doesn't offer some of the detailed views and charts that NPM generally offers. Other than that it's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

If you are looking for software to monitor and bring DB problems to your attention then this is it. It's extremely helpful, not too hard to set up and will give you peace of mind once you're live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It prevents downtime or even future downtime, by allowing us to nip potential issues in the bud before they happen. Also a much easier way of seeing the DB etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.