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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Sarah Geaney

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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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SolarWinds Database Observability Reviews (215)

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David E.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/19/2020

"Quite accurate with analysing database performance"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Quite simple to use and very easy to learn.

Realistic with access of real-time and historical data.

It's have a great dashboard.

Cloud database support makes it's Accessible from anywhere Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Good software with cloud database support thus easy access of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's highly commendable for automatically detecting any anomaly with our database and act faster.

Intuitive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a cross platform database support which ensure the database is available on the premises and on cloud.

Easy to detect any anomaly with database automatically.

Easy to intergrate with PerfStack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aida R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2020

"It's the most helpful and secure software with SQL database management."

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very incredible to monitor our performance and great alerts which helps with notification.

Easy for our IT support for no worry of security of data.

Its cost saving software to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

More reliable with monitoring our database performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's makes access of data comfortable and more secure.

It's cost saving software to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are able to comfortably work with SQL database with no struggle.

It cost saving and went according to plan

Easy to deploy on the premises and on the cloud making data access easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/9/2020

"Very intuitive user interface with effective customer service."

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Intuitive user interface thus easy to use.

It's a cross platform software which support database in the cloud and on premises.

It's have a great customer service and friendly.

Access of reatime data is simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Customer friendly support and easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

It's simple with access of both realtime and historical data from anywhere anytime.

User friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

User friendly customer service.

Access of realtime and historical data is realtime wity ease.

Its a cross platform database support on the premises and on the cloud.

Brilliant user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Terry P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/10/2020

"Wonderful features with real-time access of data from anywhere anytime."

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Wonderful with real-time access of data from anywhere anytime and cloud access.

It's more secure with permission to access data.

More intelligent and most intuitive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Great software with ease access of data from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Its a cross platform with database support on the cloud and on-premises.

It's cost effective and very affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Simplicity with access of data from anywhere anytime.

It's very easy to learn and monitor our database performance.

User friendly and easy to use.

Real-time access of data makes it very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antonie A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/15/2020

""Glady happy to automate our processes""

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Efficiency with automating our processes.

It's ability to schedule tasks is simple.

Smart with drag and drop of menus.

It's very secure and cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very smart with automating our daily tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's effectively easy to intergrate with OCR products and scan PDF files.

Automation saves alot with daily expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More secure and intelligent software to use.

Easy to navigate with amazing drag and drop menus.

Super friendly and easy to use.

Intergration with OCR works perfectly with PDF documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collin G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/29/2020

"DPA quick review"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Provides an easy visual interface to quickly identify problem nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Somewhat limited SWSQL capabilities for mass updates/monitoring scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ruby G.

Content Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/20/2020

"Great software for analysing and monitoring network performance"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It creates amazing maps with monitoring nodes which makes identification of zones inteŕruptions easy. It also sends alerts which you can customize according to your needs.

You can also minimize the view so that you can continue to work while tracking.

Create custom views and pages to monitor different silos. You can not only monitor the traffic flowing on the network but also the device hat created the traffic allowing you to manage excessive bandwidth consumption and save costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I didn't like the fact that it is not completely automated. You have to do constant updates on your own. Otherwise, it's a great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

You can download its trial version and give it a go. Then you can move onto its paid version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a cloud computing company and we use it to analyze network traffic as we don't want it slow down of its busy.

It also helps to detect increasing photo and video sharing usage and point-to-point traffic. Updating the network can be very expensive and is usually only a short-term solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris K.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2020

"Accessibility and mobility."

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Access of data from anywhere is possible with cloud storage.

Secure with any access the user has permission.

Good product with alerts for any unusual activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

User friendly with data access and more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes for SQL is easy to learn and secure the data.

Great with mobility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Alerts helps with faster response.

Good to work with SQL for it's more secure and easy to learn

It's very cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

mitul b.

I love to learn new software being as software developer and I am using this software since one year.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2019

"Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer great product in the right situation. "

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It is very easy to use and configure. This is the best software for database and SQL query performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning. There is no other database tool provides response-time-based to help DBAs and developers improve database performance. Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer lets you identify problems before they escalate and impact business operations - and the bottom line. dynamic baselines, wait time analysis, and custom reports allow your team to stay on top of application performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

There is nothing to dislike in this software. I had a hard time coming up with a con for this since it really did exactly what I needed it to do. So I have to resort to this: it's not free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I would highly recommend this software to all the customers or clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were able to use this product to identify issues with our database's performance that was initially thought to be caused by network issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ganesh P.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/25/2019

"Analyze your RDBMS DB to improve performance"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

DB performance is very crucial while developing software's and today's ERA people wants everything should be quick & responsive hence the DB performance should be optimize to return the data quickly to the front end applications, Solarwinds DPA tools helps a lot while optimizing the SQL queries which takes longer times to execute.It provides the real time analysis and support almost all DB types whether on-premises or in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It's quite expensive tool, we tried it for trial 14 days but couldn't afford later as it's not affordable by the organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

I Would definitely like to recommend the Solarwinds Database performance analysis tools, as it has quite good setup of features on performance tuning of your SQL queries whether you are using any of DB tools like SQL, Oracle, MySql & DB2 etc. This provides real time analysis, historic monitoring and integration with other products. As performance of your SQL queries must be upto the mark to return the result quickly so using Solarwids DPA is best add on. You stil have the option to use inbuilt tools in RDBPS providers but they are not that great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As developer you always need to ensure that your SQL queries, stored procedures are best on performance & returns the output quickly so Solarwinds DPA plays important role by providing - advise on index, and query tuning, real-time and historic monitoring, multi relational database support like - SQL Server, Oracle, MySql, DB2, it supports DBs on cloud as well as on-premises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.