SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Reviews

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer bridges performance gaps with a concise graphical interface. Monitoring, anomaly detection, and centralized database management are highly valued. It supports proactive issue identification and resolution, reducing MTTA and MTTR. Features like Query Advice Dashboard, index, and query advisories offer deep insights into performance issues. Duplicate plan identification and space management notifications enhance its effectiveness, delivering advanced analytics and anomaly alerts, aiding thousands of databases.

• "SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer has positively impacted my organization by monitoring my critical systems serving millions of customers with a couple of hundred licenses of SQL SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer."
• "The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is anomaly detection. It alerts you when things outside the norm are happening, and the feature that analyzes your indexes informs you if you have wide or overlapping indexes. It also helps identify SQL query bottlenecks, letting you know if something is taking longer than usual, if a query plan has changed, and if you need to update statistics.In terms of usage, it is straightforward to use, learn and understand. The patching process is smooth and explains each feature, including links to external resources for further reading."
• "In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network layer, database layer, or elsewhere."

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer could enhance its alerting and reporting features and offer more customizable dashboards. Users find the administration screens cumbersome. Expanding support for newer databases and robust PostgreSQL monitoring is desired. There are calls for improved scalability within the Orion interface. A single dashboard for multiple instances is needed. Installation could be smoother. Reducing pricing, enhancing performance, and increasing the licensing threshold are recommended improvements.

• "SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is still lagging for monitoring the cloud instances of databases including Aurora DB and Cloud SQL DB."
• "One area where the tool could improve is by adding support for additional databases. For instance, supporting newer databases like Couchbase or MongoDB would be beneficial."
• "SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should include more details on how everything works."