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SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) pinpoints performance issues while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs, AppDevs, SREs, and DevOps to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems.
Overview
SolarWinds is a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure solutions, trusted by more than 300,000 customers worldwide to help accelerate their business transformation in todays hybrid IT world. SolarWinds gives organizations of any size or complexity the power to accelerate productivity and deliver seamless resiliency. With integrated actionable intelligence for your entire ecosystem, we have got IT covered.
SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is the cross-platform solution to help you monitor, diagnose, and optimize your databases from anywhere, providing database performance monitoring on AWS and on-premises, spanning Aurora®, SQL Server®, MySQL®, PostgreSQL, and Oracle® and much more.
Whether you are running your database instances in RDS or EC2, DPA uses response-time analysis to identify the root cause of the hardest performance problems in minutes, not hours. Experience the clear, standardized view available for yourself in our Guided Tour video or test drive it on our DPA demo site.
From SQL statements and indexes to execution plans and blocking, DPA provides a complete view of all performance data. With custom historical views and reports, you see trends and the impact of changes. Drag-and-drop custom email alert templates combined with the RESTful management APIs allow you to automate instance monitoring and alerting.
Trusted by thousands of customers worldwide, DPA gives you the power to find your most complex performance issues while optimizing database performance without over-provisioning. To experience DPA firsthand, give it a try with the free 14-day trial available in this image, or contact SolarWinds now for a private offer.
Highlights
- Monitor: A clear, standardized view of your databases in real time. From resource usage to wait times, intuitive interfaces help you stay informed and in control.
- Diagnose and Optimize: Combine anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and query diagnostics to uncover performance issues and receive actionable insights to fine-tune your database for peak efficiency.
- Everywhere: On AWS®, on-premises, or across hybrid environments - track and optimize the database you rely on.
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Pricing
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Dimension | Cost/host/hour |
|---|---|
1 to 4 Database Instances | $0.136 |
5 to 19 Database Instances | $0.129 |
20 to 49 Database Instances | $0.122 |
50 to 99 Database Instances | $0.115 |
100 to 199 Database Instances | $0.108 |
200 or More Database Instances | $0.101 |
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We do not currently support refunds. Please contact sales for further questions (dpa-aws@solarwinds.com ).
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
For complete instructions on starting a DPA instance, please follow this link for more information: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/kbloader.aspx?kb=MT2494
Once you verify in the EC2 console that your AMI EC2 instance is running, launch DPA by opening a browser and entering this URL: http://<Your_Public_DNS> (for example: http://ec2-54-175-249-214.compute-1.amazonaws.com ).
You can copy and paste <Your_Public_DNS> from your EC2 console. The initial DPA password will be your EC2 instance_id, which you can get also from your EC2 console. When you log in to DPA for the first time, you will be asked to: 1) Create a DPA repository. 2) Agree to the EULA. 3) Select a default timezone. Then you can then start registering databases for monitoring.
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If you require technical support for your AWS implementation, please open a support ticket (https://customerportal.solarwinds.com/support/submit-a-ticket ). If you have questions about obtaining support, please email customerservice@solarwinds.com for assistance.
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Performance Monitoring
Cross-platform database performance monitoring with real-time response-time analysis across multiple database systems
Anomaly Detection
Machine learning-powered anomaly detection for proactively identifying and addressing potential database performance issues
Root Cause Analysis
Comprehensive diagnostic capabilities to identify performance bottlenecks through detailed analysis of SQL statements, indexes, execution plans, and blocking
Multi-Database Support
Monitoring and optimization capabilities for diverse database systems including Aurora, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle
Automated Alerting
Custom historical views, drag-and-drop email alert templates, and RESTful management APIs for automated instance monitoring and alerting
Performance Monitoring
Centralized dashboard for comprehensive database estate monitoring across multiple servers and applications
Automated Maintenance
Automated detection and resolution of common database performance and maintenance problems
Security Risk Management
Proactive identification and mitigation of potential database security risks and compliance violations
Operational Scalability
Capability to monitor and scale database operations across diverse server environments and applications
Collaborative Diagnostics
Integrated platform enabling cross-team visibility and collaborative troubleshooting between database administrators and developers
Database Monitoring
Real-time monitoring of relational database infrastructure and performance metrics across multiple targets
Query Analysis
Capability to execute and analyze SQL scripts for identifying schema drifts, database user management, and historical query trends
Infrastructure Correlation
Correlation of infrastructure-related metrics with database performance metrics for comprehensive observability
Performance Trend Tracking
Aggregation and visualization of long-term performance trends across databases and user behaviors
Multi-Target Exploration
Ability to explore and drill down into queries, tables, and databases across diverse database instances
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212 external reviews
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Yazid B.
best support team, best features
Reviewed on Jul 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
helps a lot to analyse performance and do comparatifs
Can crate good dashboards
Can crate good dashboards
What do you dislike about the product?
issue when I upgrade solarwinds I lost my dashboards
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
proactive alerts
performance analysis
performance analysis
Computer Software
A Powerful, Insightful Tool for Database Health and Performance Monitoring
Reviewed on Jul 02, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
SolarWinds Database Observability provides deep visibility into database performance with an intuitive and user-friendly interface. I especially appreciate the real-time query monitoring, wait time analysis, and query plan visualizations, which make it easy to identify performance bottlenecks quickly. The tool supports multiple database platforms (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), which is valuable in a heterogeneous environment. The customisable dashboards and alerting features are another highlight, allowing proactive monitoring and reducing the time to resolution.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the feature set is robust, the initial setup and configuration can be a bit complex
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SolarWinds Database Observability is helping us solve the critical challenge of database performance visibility and root cause analysis. In the past, identifying slow-running queries, lock contention, or unusual spikes in resource usage required a lot of manual investigation and DBA expertise. With SolarWinds, we now get real-time insights into query performance, wait events, and system metrics, all in a single pane of glass.
Consulting
Streamlined Database Monitoring with SolarWinds Database Observability
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
As a long-time IT administrator, finding the right observability tool that offers both depth and usability can be a challenge. SolarWinds Database Observability delivers on both fronts. From the moment we integrated it into our systems, it became clear that this solution was built with real-world database environments in mind.
What do you dislike about the product?
There were some issue integrating some existing products SolarWinds, but I was able to resolve those issue with little difficulty . If you’re already in the SolarWinds ecosystem, the observability suite only enhances what you can do, without adding complexity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What stands out most is the platform’s intuitive UI and comprehensive visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It resolved a major issue we encounter: monitoring PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL, the tool provides unified insights into performance metrics, wait times, slow queries, and resource bottlenecks—all from a single dashboard.
Hospital & Health Care
we use SWinds for interface tracking and circuits up/down
Reviewed on Jun 24, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
availablility to view and monitor critical circuits
What do you dislike about the product?
length of time to login in Solarwinds is terrible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
viewing and real time scalability and governance of our wide area network
Information Technology and Services
Network Visibility - Difficult Reporting
Reviewed on Jun 24, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
SolarWinds was able to provide the visibility we needed to identify network issues and outages in real-time.
The node details are extensive and the ability to monitor all network devices and interfaces
Integrations with different vendors and products are good for our environment.
Once the product is setup, there is not a lot of maintenance needed so it is hands off until we either need to update nodes, alerts, or adjust new reports.
The node details are extensive and the ability to monitor all network devices and interfaces
Integrations with different vendors and products are good for our environment.
Once the product is setup, there is not a lot of maintenance needed so it is hands off until we either need to update nodes, alerts, or adjust new reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
There were some odd issues that occurred during implementation that extended our timeline. Their support was able to resolve, it just took a lot of additional time and there was still difficulty with setting up the service accounts needed.
The reporting functionality was difficult to understand. We were attempting to create a very basic report and was not very intuitive to create. Even after attending several webinars and contacting support, we still had to make additional tweaks to obtain our desired output.
The reporting functionality was difficult to understand. We were attempting to create a very basic report and was not very intuitive to create. Even after attending several webinars and contacting support, we still had to make additional tweaks to obtain our desired output.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility into our network availability, especially when there is no IT on-site to observe connectivity in real-time.