Cross-Platform Database Performance Monitoring Tool

Cross-platform database tools allow you to easily toggle between performance views for different databases from a unified control center. You can receive real-time alerts for issues across these databases, and address problems without switching between different monitoring tools.

For modern-day enterprises, multiple applications may use different databases, hosted on different platforms. Cross-platform database performance monitoring can allow DBAs and IT admins to keep track of cross-platform database performance in real time—even if you’re using and monitoring multiple database types.

Cross-platform database monitoring tools allow you to oversee the performance of multiple database servers in a centralized dashboard. With SolarWinds DPA, using software to monitor performance of cross-platform databases is similar to using a database monitoring tool to monitor the performance of a single database platform. However, instead of using multiple solutions to monitor different server platforms that may require separate logins and resources, you can simply use DPA Central Server to connect information from remote DPA servers to consolidate data into a single dashboard stored in a repository database accessible through a web interface.

Database performance monitoring with DPA is designed to use wait-based analysis to help you better understand which problems to focus on to make the greatest performance improvements. Traditional database performance monitors often focus on only analyzing database resource consumption to detect bottlenecks, but optimizing database health metrics don’t always perfectly correspond to making substantial performance improvement. DPA is built to track variations in response time to help you more easily identify database inefficiencies, where the longest wait times are, and provides advice on how to fix performance issues, so you can prioritize tuning opportunities to significantly improve end-user wait times.

Today’s enterprises often run multiple applications from different database servers, which traditionally requires separate database performance monitoring tools. The goal of cross-platform database monitoring is to ensure performance across your infrastructure by providing a way to configure multiple database platforms to send performance data into a centralized monitoring tool, with the ability to easily toggle between dashboards.

Cross-platform database tools can be an important asset to help businesses gain deeper insight and improve efficiency of performance for multiple database platforms, whether these database servers are located on-premises or in the cloud.

Setting up your cross-platform database performance monitoring is designed to be an intuitive process with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). Once you’ve set up the DPA server, you can begin collecting multiple database performance metrics. DPA is built to remotely connect to each database instance using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), which results in less than 1% overhead on the instance since no software is installed on the monitored server.

DPA is compatible with Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, and more. Simply authenticate your servers using a single account, which you can add either as a DPA user or through Active Directory/LDAP. More detailed setup instructions are available here.

After linking your DPA account to your databases, you can begin viewing your registered databases from the Central Server page on your DPA dashboard. DPA allows you to set up monitoring configurations and alerts for each server separately and view visualizations for each database. Instead of switching between multiple screens or monitoring tools for each database, DPA is designed to offer the benefits of having high-precision, response-time database performance monitoring, combined with user-friendly, cross-platform database software views.

Whether the performance problems are in your MySQL database or Oracle database, DPA cross-platform database software can help you identify issues more easily and provide advice on best practices to help you resolve issues quicker.