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SolarWinds Database Observability Overview

What is SolarWinds Database Observability?

Your databases are the backbone of your business, built with dedication and care. Now, they need an observability solution that matches your passion—ensuring they perform at their absolute best. Database Observability, available as Self-Hosted or SaaS, empowers database teams to monitor databases for emerging issues, diagnose and uncover root causes, and optimize for faster performance across leading database technologies both on-premises and in the cloud. Monitor: Track key performance metrics and detect early warning signs to prevent issues before they escalate. Diagnose: Rapidly identify and resolve performance challenges like slow queries and resource bottlenecks. Optimize: Fine-tune database performance with query optimization, indexing strategies, and efficient resource utilization for greater scalability. Observe Everywhere: Gain complete cross-environment visibility with a unified view of your databases, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, all from a single platform.

SolarWinds Database Observability Details
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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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Recent SolarWinds Database Observability Reviews

YB
Yazid B.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"best support team, best features"
helps a lot to analyse performance and do comparatifs Can crate good dashboards
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A Powerful, Insightful Tool for Database Health and Performance Monitoring"
SolarWinds Database Observability provides deep visibility into database performance with an intuitive and user-friendly interface. I especially ap...
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C
Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Streamlined Database Monitoring with SolarWinds Database Observability"
As a long-time IT administrator, finding the right observability tool that offers both depth and usability can be a challenge. SolarWinds Database ...

SolarWinds Database Observability Media

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)
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SolarWinds Database Observability Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Various aspects of the DPA including queries that take up the most Wait Times, Deadlock conditions, compute resources consumed by the DB instance like CPU, Mem, and the best part, even Virtual infrastructure resources.

With recent additions to the NPM + DPA integration, PerfStack allows cross-module correlation helping identify issues with network or server or DB at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

The SolarWinds DPA Reporting feature currently does not allow customization.

Standard out-of-the-box reports are not suitable for all environments.

The product should include a Report writing functionality for custom reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our DB instances run most of the business applications and DB Administrators are required to provide an optimal performance of the DB and hence the Business Apps. Insights into DB performances are thereby helping us resolve Biz App performance issues and ensuring that Biz Apps run at desired performance levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NS
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Best part is query execution time and always simple to execute queries. Oracle serves the purpose of processing SQL and PL SQL queries with different engines. Both the execution engines run in parallel and can execute any syntax or query as per keywords.

The other best thing is using this does not need any additional skills as it can run all queries the same as for oracle or sql. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

every time we need to work need to create a different workspace in case the previous not closed properly, or we forget the password of the previous. The maintenance of the history of execution can be better all the ways as they need to provide a single click to access all previous run commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Must try this tool, instead of opting for various tools in a different ways. It just integrates all the databases, we just need to select and start working. It is also available for trail purpose, you can try for free then go for the purchase of the tool. It saves lot of time and enhance security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It solves the problems of accessing, deletion, updating of the database. It also reduces the redundancy at the same time the various database anomalies are also handled.

It also ensures the high rate for integration and durability of the database.

We got almost 100% ration to recover database from any in consistent state. The degree of correctness will always maintained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DE
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Quite simple to use and very easy to learn.

Realistic with access of real-time and historical data.

It's have a great dashboard.

Cloud database support makes it's Accessible from anywhere Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Good software with cloud database support thus easy access of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's highly commendable for automatically detecting any anomaly with our database and act faster.

Intuitive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a cross platform database support which ensure the database is available on the premises and on cloud.

Easy to detect any anomaly with database automatically.

Easy to intergrate with PerfStack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AR
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very incredible to monitor our performance and great alerts which helps with notification.

Easy for our IT support for no worry of security of data.

Its cost saving software to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

More reliable with monitoring our database performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's makes access of data comfortable and more secure.

It's cost saving software to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are able to comfortably work with SQL database with no struggle.

It cost saving and went according to plan

Easy to deploy on the premises and on the cloud making data access easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Intuitive user interface thus easy to use.

It's a cross platform software which support database in the cloud and on premises.

It's have a great customer service and friendly.

Access of reatime data is simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Customer friendly support and easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

It's simple with access of both realtime and historical data from anywhere anytime.

User friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

User friendly customer service.

Access of realtime and historical data is realtime wity ease.

Its a cross platform database support on the premises and on the cloud.

Brilliant user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TP
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Wonderful with real-time access of data from anywhere anytime and cloud access.

It's more secure with permission to access data.

More intelligent and most intuitive user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Great software with ease access of data from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Its a cross platform with database support on the cloud and on-premises.

It's cost effective and very affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Simplicity with access of data from anywhere anytime.

It's very easy to learn and monitor our database performance.

User friendly and easy to use.

Real-time access of data makes it very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Efficiency with automating our processes.

It's ability to schedule tasks is simple.

Smart with drag and drop of menus.

It's very secure and cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Very smart with automating our daily tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes it's effectively easy to intergrate with OCR products and scan PDF files.

Automation saves alot with daily expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More secure and intelligent software to use.

Easy to navigate with amazing drag and drop menus.

Super friendly and easy to use.

Intergration with OCR works perfectly with PDF documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CG
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Provides an easy visual interface to quickly identify problem nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Somewhat limited SWSQL capabilities for mass updates/monitoring scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I've personally have not experienced any issues with DPA, but the benefits are that it provides an easy interface and reporting software to quickly alert to and respond to badly behaving databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ruby  G.
RG
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What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

It creates amazing maps with monitoring nodes which makes identification of zones inteŕruptions easy. It also sends alerts which you can customize according to your needs.

You can also minimize the view so that you can continue to work while tracking.

Create custom views and pages to monitor different silos. You can not only monitor the traffic flowing on the network but also the device hat created the traffic allowing you to manage excessive bandwidth consumption and save costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

I didn't like the fact that it is not completely automated. You have to do constant updates on your own. Otherwise, it's a great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

You can download its trial version and give it a go. Then you can move onto its paid version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a cloud computing company and we use it to analyze network traffic as we don't want it slow down of its busy.

It also helps to detect increasing photo and video sharing usage and point-to-point traffic. Updating the network can be very expensive and is usually only a short-term solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CK
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about SolarWinds Database Observability?

Access of data from anywhere is possible with cloud storage.

Secure with any access the user has permission.

Good product with alerts for any unusual activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SolarWinds Database Observability?

User friendly with data access and more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SolarWinds Database Observability:

Yes for SQL is easy to learn and secure the data.

Great with mobility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Alerts helps with faster response.

Good to work with SQL for it's more secure and easy to learn

It's very cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.