24/7 Real-Time Database Health Tool

Improve performance with insights into database health

Elevate your database health monitoring

Elevate your database health monitoring

SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) is designed to continuously monitor database performance, providing insight into health and detailed performance metrics day-to-day, down to the second. DPM helps make database health checks simple with the help of flexible tools and expert guidance that can fill a critical gap in your monitoring stack, including the ability to provide instant recommendations on where to change server configuration or find queries with potentially bad behavior.

With 24/7 real-time monitoring, you can more easily attain your KPI goals for availability, deployment frequency, reduce deploy failures, lead time for changes, MTTD, MTTR, and more.

Enhance database health monitoring with adaptive fault detection

Enhance database health monitoring with adaptive fault detection

Traditional database monitoring can miss tiny interruptions to service or server availability that may potentially have a larger effect on database performance in the future. SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor is built to solve this problem with its patented Adaptive Fault Detection technology, which is designed to detect  faults in the database server and storage subsystem to help you more easily investigate and resolve what’s causing the faults before they can lead to major outages.

Faults can be caused by poor performance or system overload. However, since the behavior of faults can seem unpredictable, they’re often harder to detect through threshold-based alerting and may not be located until they turn into major problems downtime. As faults get larger, they can also become more difficult to diagnose and resolve.

With DPM, you can more easily detect faults when they’re small and easier to diagnose and fix. When a fault happens, DPM is built to begin collecting more information and add the fault as an event on the Events page with an interface designed to help you more easily investigate and diagnose.

Build custom dashboards to support real-time monitoring

Build custom dashboards to support real-time monitoring

When it comes to real-time database health monitoring, having visibility into the key metrics you’re tracking is essential.

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor is designed to continuously monitor key metrics tied to database health and allow you to build custom dashboards, so you can get insights into what’s important to you. With custom dashboards in DPM, you can:

  • Track metrics and watch for trends with health summary for databases and systems
  • Get recommendations based on best practices
  • Explore performance outliers
  • Manage resource capacity
  • Compare database performance before and after releases

Stay on top of database health monitoring with automated alerting

Stay on top of database health monitoring with automated alerting

Having a tool that performs thorough database health monitoring is important, but it’s even more valuable if it includes a powerful alerting system to help keep database administrators in the know about detected issues.

Database Performance Monitor includes a powerful, customizable alerting system to notify the appropriate stakeholders about inferred or detected abnormalities to the host, system, queries, and more before they have a chance to affect database availability or performance. Once alerted, DPM is built to be easier for database administrators to navigate and locate the information they need to begin addressing the problem with user-friendly dashboards.

Monitor key elements of your database, whether it’s on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud

Monitor key elements of your database, whether it’s on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor is a SaaS platform designed for database health monitoring  for on-premises, hybrid, or cloud-based databases. DPM is built to deploy agents to pull data from a host to continuously monitor the function and performance of databases in real time.

DPM can be installed four ways:

  1. On-host installation – DPM installs and runs the agent on the server it will monitor. The agent can then automatically detect and configure services available to be monitored. On-host is the recommended installation for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, whenever possible. For Redis, on-host installation is required.
  2. Off-host installation – Install the DPM agent on a compatible host, then connect to the host via the network. This install is best for Amazon RDS, Aurora, MongoDB Atlas, and Google Cloud SQL for MySQL or Postgres. This install option may also be used for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases with SSL encrypted traffic.
  3. Containerized installation – Configure the DPM agent to run in virtualized environments, such as Heroku. You can monitor the database as on-host or off-host depending on the configuration.
  4. Manually – Using Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, you can install DPM manually. You can also configure the database to be monitored as on-host or off-host.
Get More on Database Health Monitoring
Do you find yourself asking…
  • How do you check the health of a database?
  • How to make a database available 24/7
  • How does 24/7 database monitoring work in DPM?
  • How do you check the health of a database?

    A big part of checking database health is monitoring key metrics to better understand issues that could impact database health. Some of the most important server metrics related to database health to monitor include:

    • Transactions – Monitoring transactions can offer a reflective measurement of database performance, as identifying long running or blocked transactions can help you better understand the potential effect on response time and causes of deadlocks.
    • Query performance – Poor query performance can impact database performance. Some specific issues to look for in your queries are deadlocks, too many or too few indexes, and queries selecting more data than necessary.
    • Capacity – Some issues with database performance may also be due to capacity issues. These include insufficient or slow CPU, slow disk without sufficient IOPS, misconfigured or full disks, and lack of memory.
    • Configuration – Checking your configurations against best practices can help you make sure the settings aren’t affecting database performance.

     

    When it comes to understanding database health, it’s also important to consider which database type you’re using and picking the right health monitoring approach for that specific database. For example, a NoSQL database (which is not relational) may need a different database health check than a relational database like SQL.

  • How to make a database available 24/7

    Making a database available 24/7 depends on first knowing what contributes to database availability, so you can monitor key statistics and address issues before they can significantly affect availability.

    A database is defined as being available if users of the data—including applications, customers, and employees—can readily access the data they need. Database availability can also be defined by the percentage of time the database can be used for productive work.

    At least four main elements make up database availability:

    1. Manageability: The power to create and maintain an environment that effectively delivers service to users.
    2. Reliability: The power to deliver specified levels of service for a certain period.
    3. Recoverability: The power to reestablish service in case of an error or failure.
    4. Serviceability: The power to identify, diagnose, and resolve database availability issues when they arise.

     

    Depending on the type of database you’re working with, there are a few different ways to make a database available 24/7. One of the best ways is to continuously monitor your database health, so you can more quickly identify and resolve issues that arise.

  • How does 24/7 database monitoring work in DPM?

    SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) is a SaaS platform built to help you more easily maintain and improve the health of traditional, open-source, and cloud-native databases at scale and without overhead.

    DPM is designed to continuously collect, display, and alert on essential database metrics that can indicate an issue with database health and performance. The tool can also display important database metrics in customizable views that can be easily shared to better enable cross-functional team workflows.

    DPM features a fault detection algorithm built to detect when requests for work stall, so you can more easily detect and resolve what’s causing the faults to prevent interruptions to database availability and database health issues before they become outages.

How do you check the health of a database?

A big part of checking database health is monitoring key metrics to better understand issues that could impact database health. Some of the most important server metrics related to database health to monitor include:

  • Transactions – Monitoring transactions can offer a reflective measurement of database performance, as identifying long running or blocked transactions can help you better understand the potential effect on response time and causes of deadlocks.
  • Query performance – Poor query performance can impact database performance. Some specific issues to look for in your queries are deadlocks, too many or too few indexes, and queries selecting more data than necessary.
  • Capacity – Some issues with database performance may also be due to capacity issues. These include insufficient or slow CPU, slow disk without sufficient IOPS, misconfigured or full disks, and lack of memory.
  • Configuration – Checking your configurations against best practices can help you make sure the settings aren’t affecting database performance.

 

When it comes to understanding database health, it’s also important to consider which database type you’re using and picking the right health monitoring approach for that specific database. For example, a NoSQL database (which is not relational) may need a different database health check than a relational database like SQL.

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How to make a database available 24/7

Making a database available 24/7 depends on first knowing what contributes to database availability, so you can monitor key statistics and address issues before they can significantly affect availability.

A database is defined as being available if users of the data—including applications, customers, and employees—can readily access the data they need. Database availability can also be defined by the percentage of time the database can be used for productive work.

At least four main elements make up database availability:

  1. Manageability: The power to create and maintain an environment that effectively delivers service to users.
  2. Reliability: The power to deliver specified levels of service for a certain period.
  3. Recoverability: The power to reestablish service in case of an error or failure.
  4. Serviceability: The power to identify, diagnose, and resolve database availability issues when they arise.

 

Depending on the type of database you’re working with, there are a few different ways to make a database available 24/7. One of the best ways is to continuously monitor your database health, so you can more quickly identify and resolve issues that arise.

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How does 24/7 database monitoring work in DPM?

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) is a SaaS platform built to help you more easily maintain and improve the health of traditional, open-source, and cloud-native databases at scale and without overhead.

DPM is designed to continuously collect, display, and alert on essential database metrics that can indicate an issue with database health and performance. The tool can also display important database metrics in customizable views that can be easily shared to better enable cross-functional team workflows.

DPM features a fault detection algorithm built to detect when requests for work stall, so you can more easily detect and resolve what’s causing the faults to prevent interruptions to database availability and database health issues before they become outages.

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Improve performance with real-time database health monitoring

Database Performance Monitor

  • Continuously track health of databases in the cloud, locally, and hybrid

  • More easily isolate environment changes after code deploys

  • Use real-time and historical data to quickly pinpoint database performance issues

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