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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA)

Cross-platform database performance monitoring built to uncover wait-time bottlenecks and tune SQL queries across on-premises and cloud environments

SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) uses wait-time analytics to monitor Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, SAP ASE, Azure SQL, and other major databases—giving you a clear view of what’s slowing queries down. DPA pinpoints performance issues at the SQL, wait, and resource layer, while tuning advisors and machine-learning–based anomaly detection help you proactively optimize databases before minor issues turn into major incidents.

With an intuitive web interface, DBAs, DevOps, and application teams can collaborate on a unified view of performance across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud database environments.

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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) Feature Highlights

  • 24/7, down-to-the-second monitoring for both real-time and historical analysis.

  • All-in-one, query-level performance view showing wait profiles, plan changes, blocking, and more.

  • Find your worst-performing applications, SQL statements, and tables typically in seconds.

  • Hybrid monitoring for physical, virtualized, and cloud-based database instances.

  • Uncover root causes from server CPU and I/O down to individual SQL statements.

  • Investigate high wait time with supporting data from server resource usage, blocking, VM and host metrics, and more.

  • Anomaly detection powered by machine learning that improves as it observes your workloads.
  • Detailed blocking and deadlock analysis to reveal SQL blocking hierarchies.

  • VMware vSphere® performance and event monitoring to see how virtual infrastructure impacts database performance.

  • Search for and filter individual SQL query statements to quickly isolate problem code.

  • Advanced alerting combining wait-time data, vendor statistics, and custom SQL or stored procedures for precise notifications.

  • Global dashboards summarizing your database estate, showing active alerts, instance status, and wait-time trends.

  • Supports cloud deployments on Azure® (certified) and AWS®, with flexible options for running DPA in the cloud or on-premises.

Integration with SolarWinds HCO and SAM

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) customers can easily integrate Database Performance Analyzer data via the SolarWinds Platform. Correlate query wait times with application and infrastructure metrics to quickly answer “Is it the database or the app?” and achieve true end-to-end visibility.

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