SolarWinds AI: Smarter Database Monitoring
AI helps you detect, diagnose, and tune faster.
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AI Query Assist
Real-time query suggestions to speed up SQL performance.
When query performance drops, everything slows down: applications, teams, and your business. With growing workloads, these issues can pile up fast. Manually tuning queries takes time, especially for experienced database administrators.
SolarWinds AI Query Assist delivers instant, in-product suggestions to write, fix, and optimize queries without trial and error, helping you move faster. Whether you're writing complex SQL from scratch or fine-tuning existing SQL code, AI Query Assist provides clear, actionable recommendations in seconds.
- Get real-time query rewrite suggestions
- Improve performance without deep SQL expertise
- Free up database administrators to focus on more critical tasks
Available In: This feature is currently available in Tech Preview for SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), SQL Sentry®, and SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
(Tech Preview features may be removed from DPA in future releases until they are generally available).
Anomaly Detection
Proactively detect unusual behavior and performance issues before they impact users.
Not every problem comes with a clear warning. Gradual shifts in query behavior or resource usage can build quietly until they start to affect performance. Anomaly detection in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) helps you catch those issues quickly. DPA uses AI and machine learning to recognize what normal looks like in your environment. By analyzing patterns over days, weeks, and months, DPA highlights the changes that matter most.
That means you get fewer false alarms and earlier insight into potential performance risks.
- Detect performance anomalies in real time
- Separate expected patterns from unexpected activity
- Focus on what needs attention, not what’s different
Available In: DPA
Query and Table Tuning Advisor
Find and fix performance blockers faster.
Database slowdowns often trace back to inefficient queries or poorly tuned tables, but pinpointing the problem areas can be time-consuming and complex.
SolarWinds Query and Table Tuning Advisor simplifies the process. It automatically scans for issues like suboptimal SQL statements, missing or unused indexes, and table design flaws, then delivers clear, actionable recommendations to resolve them.
Whether you're a seasoned database administrator or just starting out, the advisor helps you:
- Identify and fix inefficient SQL faster
- See performance impact estimates before making changes
- Optimize without digging through execution plans manually
Available In: SQL Sentry and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA)
Storage Forecasting
Predict storage needs and avoid capacity issues with intelligent growth projections.
Running low on storage can lead to performance problems and unexpected outages.
SQL Sentry Storage Forecasting helps you manage capacity problems with intelligent disk usage predictions powered by machine learning.
It analyzes trends and current workloads to forecast disk usage and flag volumes approaching capacity. Whether you need visibility for the next few days or the next few years, you get clear projections, visual reports, and Resource Exhaustion Dates to guide your planning. Manage storage growth proactively:
- Eliminate guesswork in capacity planning
- Prevent system slowdowns and outages before they occur
Available In: SQL Sentry
Use a robust anomaly detection tool compatible with multiple database types
As environments become larger and more complex, database administrators need an anomaly detection tool capable of monitoring a wide variety of database types. Database Performance Analyzer offers an anomaly-based database monitoring tool for virtualized, physical, and cloud-based database instances on Windows and Linux servers, in Azure, or as an AWS subscription using one installation. The DPA anomaly detection tool is built to support Oracle, MySQL, Azure SQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and more. DPA also features integrated VMware ESXi visualization with VM option.
Get More on Anomaly Detection Tools
Do you find yourself asking…
Anomaly detection in a database, usually powered by machine learning, is a method of identifying unusual events in a database. Though databases can have outliers (and anomalies are outliers in most cases), not all outliers are anomalies. An anomaly detection tool can help DBAs more easily find “unusual” or “unexpected” instances based on database performance baselines, defining unusual and unexpected as “statistically improbable.”
Anomaly detection in database monitoring is ideal for the following:
- Finding unusual metric values to identify undetected issues
- Finding changes in important metrics for database administrators to investigate
- Zeroing in on where to search when trying to diagnose a detected problem
- Reducing the need to recalibrate thresholds
DBAs can use anomaly detection in database monitoring to help drill down into what matters more quickly. A database anomaly detection tool can also alert DBAs to unusual changes potentially indicating a database performance problem before it grows into a bottleneck.
Anomaly detection in a database, usually powered by machine learning, is a method of identifying unusual events in a database. Though databases can have outliers (and anomalies are outliers in most cases), not all outliers are anomalies. An anomaly detection tool can help DBAs more easily find “unusual” or “unexpected” instances based on database performance baselines, defining unusual and unexpected as “statistically improbable.”
Anomaly detection in database monitoring is ideal for the following:
- Finding unusual metric values to identify undetected issues
- Finding changes in important metrics for database administrators to investigate
- Zeroing in on where to search when trying to diagnose a detected problem
- Reducing the need to recalibrate thresholds
DBAs can use anomaly detection in database monitoring to help drill down into what matters more quickly. A database anomaly detection tool can also alert DBAs to unusual changes potentially indicating a database performance problem before it grows into a bottleneck.
Better optimize your databases with an anomaly detection tool
Database Performance Analyzer
- Combine a robust anomaly detection tool with easy data drill downs, context setting, and consistent navigation.
- Use a database anomaly detection tool to see what’s blocked and what’s doing the blocking.
- Unlock the right data to get the most out of your database with SQL database anomaly detection.
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