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SolarWinds Database Observability Overview

What is SolarWinds Database Observability?

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 Database Performance Analyzer monitors on-premises, on VMware®, and in the Cloud, including Amazon® AWS and Azure™ virtual machines. Agentless architecture, safe to use in production

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Database Observability Self-Hosted Subscription Pricing:

Flexible Database Performance Analyzer for virtualized environments or SQL Sentry license per instance:

1-50 instances: $1,399.00 per instance

Volume-based discounting is available. 

Flexible Database Performance Analyzer and SQL Sentry license for cloud environments per database:

1-50 databases: $139.00 per database

Volume-based discounting is available.

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SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

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SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses.

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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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Rucha V.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/8/2018

"Best product for Database and SQL query performance monitoring"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It does Database and SQL query tuning.

Can identify database problems in short time.

Has wide range of database engines to choose from and that too in single installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Nothing much as much.

It solves my issue of supporting wide range of database engines on one platorm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Best in class for Database and SQL query performance monitoring and tuning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Monitors Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.

Has quick response-time analysis to problems.

Can integrated with server and application monitoring(SAM). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikki B.

Banner Administrator / Applications DBA

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/22/2017

"Database Performance Analyzer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Like many educational institutions, our budget does not allow for the purchase of Oracle's Diagnostics and Tuning packages. SolarWinds' DPA gives customers the insight into their environment that Oracle *should* provide, but doesn't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I haven't really found anything I much dislike yet! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Damon G.

Computer Information Technology Specialist I

Law Enforcement

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/27/2017

"Great Product, Very Worth IT"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Ease of use. The UI is very easy to use and get to know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

There is a learning curve with using the product, but not steep. The community and staff provide great help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

It is definitely a great product. At the very least it needs to be on your list to trial if you are in the market for such a product! Solarwinds products in general are all great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cutting down the customer wait times. Ensuring everything is running optimally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacob B.

Sr. Technology Specialist/Copy&Print Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/22/2017

"Works very well for the situation we have"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The fact we can monitor multiple things at the same time to make sure that we are running the best we can. I like the integration with other Solarwinds offerings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Nothing that Im aware of for now. We seem to like it in the review stage. Seems like it will do exactly what we need it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay G.

DBA

Government Relations

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/21/2017

"A must have product for database group"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I love the start screen which immediately shows instances/queries need to be looked at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I could use a feature where it would allow me to email detail deadlock report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Law Practice

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/22/2017

"A must have tool for DBAs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Clear overview of multiple servers

Real time monitoring

History views

Pinpoint to trouble queries

Cool reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Custom time interval for Trend view is too restricted, would like to see more days of data beyond 30 day window Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Alerts are not easy to set and we often get false alarms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides DBA with clear view of server and database performance and makes it possible to dynamically manage infrastructure resources and pinpoint performance issues quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaughan B.

Field Systems Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/22/2017

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great product, in depth detail, perfect for your database administrators."

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The in depth detail it provides, and the quick ability to find problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The required separate server, should be apart of primary solarwinds server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Try an evaluation, and witness the impact in time it can save to troubleshoot problems for a variety of things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Application performance issues, top slow queries. The overrall ability to monitor, ddiagnoise and resolve problems within databases, helps teach uninformed database administrators and provides great insight for experienced database admins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/28/2017

"MSG DB Review"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The analytics from one-pane of glass. While that is often overstated in our industry, the DB menu and customization interfaces have truly been invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Initial Setup is always the hardest part with any deployment. But with the kind folks at SW Support we managed to get it up and running without issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

SW Product lines always have something of value and always remember you don't know what you don't know. Having the right tool in place helps prevent any "gotcha" moments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SQL resource consumption and process improvement.

We have identified the resource hogs and allocated more to them to lessen the impact on applications and end-user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2017

"Incredibly helps with troubleshooting deadlocks and performance bottlenecks"

5/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Performance charts & reports to monitor server activity

Performance trending via main page

Bottlenecks

Blocking and locking

Deadlocks analysis and charts, deadlock details and trending

Error Log alerting

Failover Alerting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The query executions plans are not perfectly aligned and not named the same as the source queries under the performance tab which makes it a bit hard to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Electronics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/21/2017

"Database Performance Analyzer for SQL DB"

4/5

What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

This DPA is real RCA tool which we are evaluating in our SQL DB and some third party DB.The good thing is that we can monitor our heterogeneous system with DPA.It help us to find the app tuning with front of app or DB side and help us fixing the problem. Previously we have to struggle to analyses the performance data and tuning the things, but now it is just simple click to resolve all hurdles in bw. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.