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

$1,399.00
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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)
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4.5
216 reviews

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Users consistently praise the real-time monitoring and intuitive interface of SolarWinds Database Observability, which simplifies the identification of performance issues and enhances database management efficiency. Many appreciate the tool's ability to provide deep insights into database performance, allowing for quick troubleshooting and proactive management. However, some users note that the initial setup can be complex, which may pose a challenge for new users.

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Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
AA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Interesting way to monitor your databases using Wait-Time Analytics."
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The wait-time analytics is great. The software easily points our where issues are with poorly written queries. Integration with the rest of the SolarWinds suite is also very helpful as we can place performance statistics from multiple modules onto the same graph. Adding storage metrics from the Storage Arrays with OS metrics, and DPA counters make mapping out potential issues easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Cost. The price per database is too high. We would like if SolarWinds offered an enterprise license. Also the trial period is too short at 14 days, it doesn't give enough time to fully vet the product. Aligning the trial with their other products at 30 days would be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
AM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"An Excellent Diagnostic Tool for Systems and DBA Collaborative Efforts"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The wait-centric focus of DPA allows monitoring professionals to speak in meaningful terms to DBAs and other DB professionals, quickly leading to common ground and productive output. In addition, the deep integration of the product with Solarwinds' NPM platform allows for correlated views, reports, and data gathering from the front end to the app to DB in a seamless fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Not much - the standalone DPA console is a trifle limited for granular reporting and alerting. Much of this limitation goes away when integrated with NPM, however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CJ
Network Manager
Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"SolarWinds DPA - View From Limited Use"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very in depth product and makes it a lot easier to find problems and root cause. Love the Tuning advisor, comes in very handy when you're not a DBA admin, and enjoy the query analysis.

Not being from a DBA background there is a learning curve to this, but if you take the input from DPA it will point you in the right direction more quickly to resolve the issue or even prevent the problem all together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Cost due to the licensing model, depending on your setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ralf S.
RS
IT Solutions Architect
Investment Management
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"DPA the discussion killer"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The view of the whole stack from the Database to the disk. This helps a lot to find bottlenecks. Also the Wait- and Blocking-Views are very helpful in finding problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The report engine of the DPA should be like the Orion report engine. The AD user and group administration could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Production Database Administrator"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

performance dashboard that gives a health summary of all the monitored database instances. Alerts can be customized and be used to alert for critical events that are logged in the SQL Server Error log. The ability to replay SQL Server database activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Difficult to read the SQL Agent job failure and identify the actual job that failed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"DataBase Performance Analyzer"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"We use DPA to troubleshoot on a daily basis."
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The addition of the waits and deadlocks has allowed us to work with our vendors in fixing and streamlining various queries. This in turn has led to faster turn around and the end user able to work more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Until the latest release there has not been a facility for SQL Availability Groups. However we have just updated to the latest version and are evaluating this functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James S.
JS
Sr. Systems Administrator
Hospital & Health Care
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent product to give you real information about your database"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The level of granularity that can be reached with the information captured by this tool. I'm also a huge fan of the explanations that are given with each of the individual items that are displayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Sometimes it can feel clunky in the relation that the node has to the database. I feel like looking at the node should flow more easily into DPA as opposed to being so separated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"DPA changed our life!"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

At many client sites, we were stuck, in a perpetual war between the DB, Network and Server teams, playing "Push the Blame" game since past so many years. After installation of DPA, we started knowing exactly, where our database performance was lagging, where the Applications were hogging the resources, where the VMs felt less provisioned. DPA was the best decision we ever took. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

We are fairly new on DPA, so we don't yet have explored much yet to find out any faults. However, it would be ever better if they expand the Vendors supported on DPA, a few of our SAP devices are not monitored in DPA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamison C. J.
JJ
Network Visibility Systems Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"SolarWinds DPA is a must have"
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Granular Details

The ability to mark points in time to track changes so you can see performance from that point in time.

The in app help and explanations.

Integrates into the Orion platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

AD authentication is not as easy to integrate as other SolarWinds products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Options

Pricing provided by SolarWinds Database Observability.

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

$1,399.00
Per Year

Flexible Database Performance Analyzer or SQL Sentry license for cloud environments per database

$139.00
Per Year
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