SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Reviews

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer enhances database visibility for Oracle users and offers older database management on a centralized dashboard. Users value its monitoring, anomaly detection, index analysis, and query advisories, which enable swift identification and resolution of performance issues. The platform supports proactive monitoring, offering insights on queries, resource forecasting, and bottleneck identification. Users appreciate its intuitive interface, advanced analytics, and the ability to address duplicate plans and system anomalies effectively.

• "Using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer has positively impacted our organization by decreasing the time taken for our database deployments by 37%, reducing the baseline learning period from one to two weeks to a shorter period of time, saving resources, and providing real-time dashboards and automated alerts that have allowed us to save at least 28 to 32% in costs, optimizing better and following the advisor recommendations to prevent outages by improving that part by 22 to 28%."
• "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."

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer requires enhancements in customizable dashboards and reporting features. Users seek a unified view for databases, improved support for PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and MongoDB, and better alerting functions. Scalability and integration with cloud instances like Aurora and Cloud SQL need work. An increase in license limits is also desired. Users find the current system lacks essential automation and customization capabilities for specific database needs like clustering and health monitoring.

• "I feel that SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a really good solution without needing significant changes, but I would suggest improvements in the feature friction to make it easier for small organizations, as it is currently limited in automation and manual tuning advice is needed."
• "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."