I have experience with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, and I implemented it for a few customers. I have 11 years of experience and I work with the center of excellence team. Basically, what we do is go to the client environment, implement, deploy, and configure it, then support teams provide support on SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and all SolarWinds modules. That is how I work. With SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, we have used historical data analysis for checking blockings on the database, such as when blockings occurred or when the database failed because of blockings.
My main use case for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is as a database performance monitoring tool. My day-to-day purpose of utilizing SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is for monitoring my critical database systems for their performance issues, including any execution plan changes, any index recommendations, and what exactly is running at that time to identify which caused the performance challenges for my system, which cannot be tracked through other available logs or metrics-based monitoring because this is something beyond those capabilities. I need a tool that can deep dive into the database system and identify the problematic queries, problematic plans, load on system, and IO status for performance of the database. In my daily work, I use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for additional scenarios where it has been particularly helpful. The other two things are the IO-related metrics, including disk IO and whether your disk IO performance is going down or up. When you go to the other monitoring tools, it captures the IO, memory, and CPU pressure at the server level. However, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a tool that divides this between the server and the SQL or the database level. This actually helps you to understand if your CPU is running at 100 percent on one particular server because of SQL Server or because of some other OS issues. This bifurcation really helps you to decide. Another thing is the alerting and monitoring and reporting feature available in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer add-ons, which actually helps you to create some daily performance reports or some basic alerts if you do not have other tools available in the system.
Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
May 31, 2024
We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting performance issues. It's mainly related to performance and the database community. Database administrators handle queries and system impacts.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Apr 19, 2024
Our customers' main use cases revolve around database monitoring. While many existing tools can handle basic monitoring tasks, more complex scenarios arise in enterprises. In these cases, customers need to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. This is where a database performance tool like SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer comes into play.
The primary use cases involve identifying database performance issues, such as long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other read-and-write performance-related issues. Long-running queries are particularly common, and customers find the tool useful for pinpointing such issues.
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I use the solution to monitor database and manual activity and to generate reports. It is also a monitoring tool that we use for a little bit of monitoring.
We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer as a monitoring service for customers, particularly in the banking industry. The solution is part of the service we provide for our customers.
SQL Server Application DBA at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 15, 2022
It was installed at a previous company I worked for, and they used it extensively there. It was cross-platform, so it was more than just SQL Server. It could work with SQL Server, Postgres and do all of the system metrics, such as RAM consumption, IO, network traffic, etc. It was a more in-depth package, but it was also rather expensive if I remember it correctly. In my current company, I'm a new principal DBA. They hired me a week and a half ago, and I'm evaluating solutions to possibly purchase. In terms of deployment, it has both on-prem and cloud deployments.
Presales Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Vendor
Oct 6, 2019
In my previous company, I was using this solution to implement monitoring callbacks. Currently, I work for a system integrator and I am implementing DPAs for some of our clients. We have an on-premises deployment.
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers comprehensive database management by detecting anomalies and optimizing SQL performance across multiple platforms. Its robust features afford users enhanced operational efficiency through seamless data integration and real-time monitoring.SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is designed to tackle performance-related challenges in database environments, facilitating the identification and optimization of issues such as long-running queries...
I have experience with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, and I implemented it for a few customers. I have 11 years of experience and I work with the center of excellence team. Basically, what we do is go to the client environment, implement, deploy, and configure it, then support teams provide support on SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and all SolarWinds modules. That is how I work. With SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, we have used historical data analysis for checking blockings on the database, such as when blockings occurred or when the database failed because of blockings.
My main use case for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is as a database performance monitoring tool. My day-to-day purpose of utilizing SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is for monitoring my critical database systems for their performance issues, including any execution plan changes, any index recommendations, and what exactly is running at that time to identify which caused the performance challenges for my system, which cannot be tracked through other available logs or metrics-based monitoring because this is something beyond those capabilities. I need a tool that can deep dive into the database system and identify the problematic queries, problematic plans, load on system, and IO status for performance of the database. In my daily work, I use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for additional scenarios where it has been particularly helpful. The other two things are the IO-related metrics, including disk IO and whether your disk IO performance is going down or up. When you go to the other monitoring tools, it captures the IO, memory, and CPU pressure at the server level. However, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a tool that divides this between the server and the SQL or the database level. This actually helps you to understand if your CPU is running at 100 percent on one particular server because of SQL Server or because of some other OS issues. This bifurcation really helps you to decide. Another thing is the alerting and monitoring and reporting feature available in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer add-ons, which actually helps you to create some daily performance reports or some basic alerts if you do not have other tools available in the system.
We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting performance issues. It's mainly related to performance and the database community. Database administrators handle queries and system impacts.
Our customers' main use cases revolve around database monitoring. While many existing tools can handle basic monitoring tasks, more complex scenarios arise in enterprises. In these cases, customers need to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. This is where a database performance tool like SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer comes into play.
The primary use cases involve identifying database performance issues, such as long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other read-and-write performance-related issues. Long-running queries are particularly common, and customers find the tool useful for pinpointing such issues.
We use the tool for sharing and monitoring Microsoft SQL server databases.
I use the solution to monitor database and manual activity and to generate reports. It is also a monitoring tool that we use for a little bit of monitoring.
We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer as a monitoring service for customers, particularly in the banking industry. The solution is part of the service we provide for our customers.
It was installed at a previous company I worked for, and they used it extensively there. It was cross-platform, so it was more than just SQL Server. It could work with SQL Server, Postgres and do all of the system metrics, such as RAM consumption, IO, network traffic, etc. It was a more in-depth package, but it was also rather expensive if I remember it correctly. In my current company, I'm a new principal DBA. They hired me a week and a half ago, and I'm evaluating solutions to possibly purchase. In terms of deployment, it has both on-prem and cloud deployments.
In my previous company, I was using this solution to implement monitoring callbacks. Currently, I work for a system integrator and I am implementing DPAs for some of our clients. We have an on-premises deployment.