SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Other Advice

Fausto Espinosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Production manager at Cobiscorp

I don't remember the exact version of the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer I'm using, but it's the most recent.

Four operators and three administrators currently use the solution in my company, but only administrators see everything, while the rest only see the dashboard.

The advice I would give to others who want to implement SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is that support is needed to successfully implement the solution.

I would rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer nine out of ten.

My company is a customer of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.

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Veronica Chaloupka - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We are using the latest version of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.

The solution is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

I would recommend users compare SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer with other software before choosing it.

Overall, I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer a nine out of ten.

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BN
DBA-database administrator at Bancobu

I advise users to continue with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer because it is a nice tool to help implement your IT tools. I am a DBA person, and the solution can help us in special monitoring in DBA.

Overall, I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer a nine out of ten.

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Ravi Khanchandani - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder Director at Techsa Services

I would suggest carefully charting out critical database instances and figuring out if the user is facing application slowness issues. If yes, they should first use simple server and application monitoring to determine whether the issues lie outside the database or within. It could be an underlying storage, server, or network-related problem.

To pinpoint network or server-related issues it can get complex. There could be physical server issues, virtual server issues, host layer problems, or underlying storage or SAN environment concerns, if they have any.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. The areas where it currently lags are in reporting and dashboarding. The reports and dashboards are somewhat static, and we cannot create custom dashboards for specific customer needs.

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NenadMijatovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Sales at S4E Serbia

If you buy the hybrid cloud severability license, you get several modules like network performance, the network traffic analyzer, etc. Additionally, DPA integrates very well with server and application monitoring solutions. There is a product called SAM, which is about monitoring the servers. You can have good integration between those two solutions.

I rate the platform a nine out of ten.

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JC
SQL Server Application DBA at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate it a five out of 10. 

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MJ
Technology Lead at InfoTech Group

I am using the latest version of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. One database administration is enough for the maintenance of the solution. I would recommend SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to other users.

Overall, I rate SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer a nine out of ten.

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it_user436179 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

I am really happy with it. There's continuous improvement and updates that are taking place. They do a lot of betas. They seem to listen to their user community. It does what it says it's going to do. It does it really easily. To me, that's the definition of a really good tool or a great tool, is you don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out how to use it and it just works.

It's a pretty lightweight product. You could, I'm sure, get away ... It's based on a web server so you could probably install it on a system that was supporting other similar applications and get away with that if you were concerned about building out a dedicated platform for the product. I would say, probably the best advice would be to get involved in their support community and be involved in that. There're so much great information from users, customizations, that you users provide that you can implement in your own environment to get even more out of the product. Then, in turn, that you could contribute to the environment as well.

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it_user251232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Global Data Center SAP Operations Team at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this tool constantly, all new projects with new SQL Servers now require a license for SolarWinds DB Analyzer in order to meet high standards of operation.

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EE
Presales Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is not to use the default reports. DPA gives very detailed information with customer reports. If you have time to investigate then you will find many good examples of reports and dashboards online.

The solution is quite ready to use as soon as you install it, although there are a lot of custom things that can be implemented.

Overall, this is a good solution but it needs easier reporting and more customizable dashboards. Also, scalability for the Orion sites needs to be improved.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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