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SolarWinds Empowers the DBA to Spearhead the Resolution of Application Performance Issues
October 2014 by Marc Jacob
SolarWinds announced extensive correlation and visibility into the database and the layers that support it with enhancements to SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), delivering database administrators — or DBAs — valuable insight into the database’s impact on other layers of an application stack and empowering them to provide their IT departments with the solution to the common concern: "Why is this app so slow?"
SolarWinds DPA, with its unique approach that includes Multi-Dimensional Performance Analysis(TM), continuously monitors SQL Server(R), Oracle(R), Sybase(R) and DB2(R) databases on physical, cloud-based and VMware(R) servers to identify database performance issues that impact end-user response times, isolate root cause, show historical performance trends, and correlate metrics with response time and performance. In its latest version, SolarWinds DPA 9.0 adds storage resource visibility and correlation, providing database admins with unique insight into how storage I/O issues contribute to poor response time; and adds metric baselining and alerting, which enables DBAs to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues within minutes.
New in SolarWinds DPA 9.0: DBAs have the power to answer, "Is the app issue in the database?"
No, the problem is somewhere else: DBAs can eliminate the database as the source of the problem and provide context into how other components of the IT infrastructure correlate with database activities. With NEW storage I/O analysis, DBAs can see the impacts of storage on the database workload, gaining insight into how storage issues such as latency and disk performance can contribute to poor database response time and ultimately impact the end user of an application.
Yes, the problem is in the database: Database performance is dynamic, so DBAs need the right tools to be able to compare expected performance with abnormal performance. With NEW resource metric baselining and alerting, DBAs can proactively identify resource outliers, correlating with app response time, and then drill deeper to see if the problem indeed originated in the database and, if so, how to resolve it.
Database Trends and Applications Magazine honored SolarWinds DPA twice in 2014, including it in the second annual DBTA 100 list of "The Companies that Matter Most in Data" and naming the product a finalist for "Best Database Performance Solution" in the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards.
SolarWinds DPA is based on a non-intrusive agentless architecture, making it safe to use in production environments with negligible performance impact. SolarWinds DPA can be used to monitor thousands of database instances running on premise, VMware or in the cloud.
– Pricing and Availability :
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer pricing starts at $1,995 USD for SQL Server and Oracle Standard Edition, and $3,495 for Oracle Enterprise Edition, DB2 and Sybase. All database platforms are now licensed by the instance and pricing includes the first year of maintenance. For more information, including a downloadable, free 14-day evaluation, visit the SolarWinds website or call 866.530.8100.
