Database Availability Monitors
Help ensure functionality by monitoring database availability
Ensure database availability and improve the end-user experience
Database availability monitoring involves continuously checking your databases to ensure applications and webpages can access the data they need without issues. Of course, performing those tests and checks manually can take a huge amount of time—time few IT professionals have to spare.
SolarWinds® ipMonitor® is built with several database availability monitors to help you more easily ensure around-the-clock database availability. These database availability monitors can perform queries, retrieve data, and analyze the results from SQL Servers to help you ensure everything is working correctly. If there are delays or problems with the results, the monitors can automatically send alerts to the proper members of your IT team, so you can get to the bottom of performance issues before they significantly affect the end-user experience.
Start monitoring database availability faster with the help of setup wizards
Setting up a complicated monitoring tool is the last thing you want to do. SolarWinds ipMonitor includes several wizards designed to help you get the monitors you want up and running typically within minutes.
The ipMonitor Startup Wizard can help you more easily install the tool, discover devices on your network, and configure alerts for your monitors. ipMonitor also offers some setup wizards for specific monitors—including for the Database Experience ADO-User Experience (SQL Query) monitor—to help you ensure the optimal setup of your monitors.
The ADO-User Experience (SQL Query) Wizard can also help you configure a monitor with the smallest amount of initial input by automatically creating a SQL statement based on the info you provide. The wizard is designed to test the parameters you create to ensure the monitor will work as expected once you move to a production environment.
Easily monitor database availability with relevant monitors
With ipMonitor, you can simply deploy the following monitors to help you better understand and track database availability:
- Database Experience: The ADO - User Experience (SQL Query) monitor connects to a SQL Server or other supported sources, performs a query, retrieves data, and analyzes the results to ensure they’re correct. You can create this monitor using a wizard built to test parameters along the way to ensure the monitor will work as expected in a production environment.
- Database Connect: The ADO (SQL Connect) monitor tests the ability to log in to a SQL Server or supported data sources. It can help ensure sufficient connection handles are in place and accounts can access as expected.
- SQL Server Performance Counters: The SQL Server Monitor opens a connection to the specified Microsoft SQL Server and tests the performance of its subsystems to determine the server’s overall health. You can identify the most poorly performing subsystem, determine points of failure, and more easily act before an outage occurs.
Other monitors included in SolarWinds ipMonitor
SolarWinds ipMonitor includes dozens of different IT monitors across a variety of categories designed to help improve network, system, and infrastructure performance and enhance the user experience. Some other popular monitors included in ipMonitor are the Bandwidth monitor, DNS User Experience monitor, Custom SNMP monitor, and Event Log monitor.
Improve user experience with database availability monitors
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- Identify issues with database availability before end users are affected.
- Get alerted whenever a monitor identifies a problem in need of your attention.
- Use built-in wizards to set up monitors efficiently.
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