Government and Education Webinar: There's More Than One Way to Monitor SQL Database Performance

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There's More Than One Way to Monitor
Database Performance
Government and Education Webinar

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Speaker Introductions
© 2021 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Trent Sherman
Senior Sales Engineer
trent.sherman@solarwinds.com

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Agenda
• SolarWinds overview
• Database monitoring
introduction
• Application monitoring
• Database performance
analysis
• Diving deeper
• Demonstration
• Additional resources
• Q&A

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SolarWinds at a Glance
1. IDC defined Network Management Software functional market, IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, October 15, 2020.
2. Gartner, Market Share Analysis: ITOM: Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2019. June 17, 2020. (AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring Tools Software Market). SolarWinds term, Systems Management, refers to the AIOps/ITIM/Other Monitoring
Tools Software Market Taxonomy referenced in the Gartner report. All statements in this report attributable to Gartner represent SolarWinds interpretation of data, research opinion, or viewpoints published as part of a syndicated subscription service
by Gartner, Inc., and have not been reviewed by Gartner. Each Gartner publication speaks as of its original publication date (and not as of the date of this presentation). The opinions expressed in Gartner publications are not representations of fact
and are subject to change without notice.
3. Customers are defined as individuals or entities that have an active subscription for our subscription products or that have purchased one or more of our perpetual license products since our inception under a unique customer identification number.
We may have multiple purchasers of our products within a single organization, each of which may be assigned a unique customer identification number and deemed a separate customer.
#1
in network
management1
320,000+
customers in 190
countries3
60+
IT management
products
22,000+ MSPs serving
450,000+ organizations
Every branch of the DoD and
nearly every civilian and
intelligence agency
150,000+ registered members of THWACK®, our global IT community
Founded in 1999
More than 3,200
employees globally
Austin, TX headquarters
Reston, VA, government office
30+ offices globally
Leader
in remote monitoring and
management
#3
in systems
management2
Growing security
portfolio
499 of the
Fortune 500®

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What Is SolarWinds ITOM?
IT operations management. Simplified.
IT Ops
On-Premises Public Cloud
Service Management
IT
Security
Database Performance Management
Network Management
Infrastructure Management
IT Security
DevOps
Private Cloud
Wherever IT
sits
All things IT Whoever
manages IT
performance
Application Performance Management

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IT Is Responsible for Keeping Applications Working
Network
Admin/Eng.
If the network fails, applications
break.
If the systems and infrastructure
fail, applications break.
SysAdmin/
DevOps
If the database fails, the
applications break.
Database
Admin
If the application itself fails, the
application breaks.
Application Developer
/ DevOps
IT
Generalist
Monitoring
Engineer
Database Performance Management
Network Management
Infrastructure Management
Application Performance Management

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Database Performance Analyzer
Drill into the database workload and query behavior
• Machine learning-based anomaly
detection and wait-time analysis
with recommendations for tuning based on
best practices
• Holistic view of open-source database
performance for the entire team at scale
without impacting database overhead
• Ability to monitor disparate database types for
cloud and on-premises databases
• With one-second granularity, you can pinpoint
small performance blips across all databases,
allowing your team to make changes before
they become large outages
• Observe how new code impacts the database
workload and query performance through
before/after comparison
• See real-time and historical query level
analysis with total elapsed, latency, and count
filtering
• Optimal data tier performance, efficiency, and
cost
• Instant visual insights in real time, not in days
or weeks
• Appeals to the whole team, not just DBAs
• Accelerates product time to market and quality
• Solves problems nothing else even sees

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Database Monitoring Features Included With SQL Sentry
• Extended Events
• Extended events is a lightweight performance monitoring system built to
enable users to collect data needed to monitor and troubleshoot problems
in SQL Server
• SQL Server Agent Monitoring
• SQL Server Agent can monitor and automatically respond to events, such
as messages from SQL Server, specific performance conditions, and
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) events

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SQL Server Monitoring With
Server & Application Monitor
• Maintain resource capacity and
server health
• Monitor capacity constraints, the
database, and the performance
and health of the server hardware
• Identify blocked SQL queries
• Drill down to blocked SQL Server
queries to discover why the
database server blocked them
• Get notified when DB or log file
size cause issues
• Monitor the overall size of all data
and log files, and be prepared
when storage capacity runs out

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Tripling Down on Database
SolarWinds database acquisition history
2013 2019 2020

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20+ Database Platforms, On-Prem to Cloud
Analyzer (DPA)
• On-prem/Azure/AWS
(perpetual/subscription)
• Machine learning anomaly
detection
• Wait based analysis with
tuning advisors
• Orion® Platform AppStack™
and PerfStack™ integration
• Best in class, integrated
virtualization option
The broadest database coverage in the industry
Monitor (DPM)
• SaaS platform with a web-based
user interface
• Monitor everything the database
does
• Metrics for every query at 1-
second granularity
• Time comparisons before and
after any event
• Integrated notebooks/runbooks
• Database-specific
intelligence/recommendations
SQL Sentry
• Designed for enterprise-ready
scalability
• Manage the performance of
your entire data estate
• View real-time performance
metrics in an intuitive dashboard
• Solve and prevent SQL Server
database performance problems
that could delay data delivery or
even bring business data
systems to a halt

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Database Performance Analyzer
Cross-platform support for both cloud and on-premises databases. Anomaly
detection powered by machine learning gets smarter over time to help you
identify the bottlenecks slowing down your applications.
• Multi-dimensional wait analysis – Set the exact context for troubleshooting performance hits with
accurate root cause determination
• Detailed query-level performance analysis – Get query-level wait profile, advisors, inefficient
data access, statistics, plan changes, blocking involvement, and resource metrics all correlated in
one view
• Expert advice for query and table tuning – Proactive tuning and optimization with index
recommendations and performance projections along with inefficient query analysis
• Virtualized database monitoring – Best-in-class VMware VM and host analysis including event
logging
• End-to-end performance monitoring – Orion Platform integration provides a single-pane-of-glass
view from the network to the storage array via AppStack and PerfStack
DPA

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Hybrid Monitoring, 24/7 Realtime, Down-to-the-Second
DPA
Cross-platform

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Database Performance Monitor
The open-source database performance monitoring solution for cloud and on-
premises databases. Adaptive fault detection indicates when and where a
system is failing. One-second granularity shows you where to investigate to
find the root cause, so your team can make changes and avoid future
problems.
• Database and system health – See the health, including availability and performance of both your
system and business critical databases
• Before and after compare – See how new code impacts database workload and query
performance
• Query analysis – See real-time and historical query level analysis with total elapsed, latency, and
count filtering
• Automated alerting – Know the second a system is down, or a threshold has been triggered
• Customizable dashboards– Focus on the databases, systems, and queries that matter the most
DPM

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System and Database Health Monitoring and Analysis
DPM
Open-source
NoSQL

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SQL Sentry Overview
• Designed for enterprise-ready scalability, SQL Sentry® empowers the data pro to efficiently monitor,
diagnose, and optimize database performance across physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments from
a common user interface.
• Manage the performance of your entire data estate—even beyond the SQL Server database—with the
SQL Sentry platform, which includes solutions for:
• SQL Server Analysis
• Windows Server and Hyper-V
• VMware
• Azure SQL Database
• Solve and prevent SQL Server database performance problems that could delay data delivery or even
bring business data systems to a halt.
• Achieve optimal database performance with SQL Sentry’s powerful capabilities:
• View real-time performance metrics in an intuitive dashboard and easily drill down for further analysis
• Proactively manage performance and eliminate alert fatigue with customizable Advisory Conditions
• Detect and resolve deadlocks
• Analyze and optimize queries with built-in Plan Explorer
• Manage SQL Server events with an Outlook-style calendar you can customize to track event chains and other information

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Dashboards
See (and create) actionable performance information about your monitored servers in an easy-to-use
dashboards that displays a graphical view of monitored server activity with "Jump To" navigation that lets you
drill down to granular details.
SQL Sentry

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Fix High-Impact Queries
The Top SQL view in SQL Sentry shows execution plan diagrams, query history, and more, so you can find
and fix potentially problematic queries.
SQL Sentry
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Advanced Alerting and Response
• Choose from more than 100 pre-built conditions available for Microsoft Windows, SQL Server, SSAS, and more
• Define conditions that collect and compare the results of a T-SQL query, WMI query, Performance Counter
value, or combination of values and queries
• Respond proactively
SQL Sentry

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20+ Database Platforms, On-Prem to Cloud
The broadest database coverage in the industry
DPA DPM SQL
Oracle X
Oracle RAC X
Oracle Exadata X
Oracle EBS X
Oracle ASM X
Microsoft SQL Server X X
Azure SQL Database X X X
Azure SQL Managed Instance X X
IBM DB2 X
SAP ASE (Sybase) X
MySQL X X
MariaDB X X
Percona X X
PostgreSQL X X
DPA DPM SQL
EDB Postgres X X
GCP for PostgeSQL X
GCP for MySQL X
Amazon RDS – MariaDB X
Amazon RDS – MySQL X X
Amazon RDS – PostgreSQL X X
Amazon RDS – SQL Server X X
Amazon RDS – Oracle X
Amazon Aurora X X
Azure Database for MySQL X X
Azure Database for MariaDB X
Azure Database for PostgreSQL X X
Redis X
MongoDB X
Vitess X

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DEMO

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Additional Resources
Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance eBook: https://info.sentryone.com/ebook-troubleshooting-sql-server-
performance
Setting SQL Server Performance Baselines and Alerts: https://www.sentryone.com/blog/kevinkline/webinar-follow-up-
setting-sql-server-performance-baselines-alerts
SQL Agent Severity Level Alert Scripts: SQL Server Agent Alerts - SQLPerformance.com
Database Performance Analyzer: https://www.solarwinds.com/database-performance-analyzer
SQL Sentry: https://www.solarwinds.com/sql-sentry
Database Performance Monitor: https://www.solarwinds.com/database-performance-monitor
Database Insights for SQL Server: https://www.solarwinds.com/database-insights-sql-server
Server & Application Monitor: https://www.solarwinds.com/server-application-monitor
Foreword to SQL Server Two Ways: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/resources/b/monitoring-central/posts/foreword-to-sql-
server-two-ways
SQL Server Two Ways – SAM AppInsight for SQL and Database Performance
Analyzer: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/resources/b/product-blog/posts/sql-server-two-ways---sam-appinsight-for-sql-and-
database-performance-analyzer
SAM AppInsight vs. DPA: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/database-performance-analyzer-
dpa/f/forum/16101/sam-appinsight-vs-dpa
Let us know how we can help you

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Q&A
Call government or education
sales:
877.946.3751
Contact federal sales:
federalsales@solarwinds.com
Contact state and local
government sales:
governmentsales@solarwinds.com
Contact education sales:
educationsales@solarwinds.com

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Contact Us
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• Email government sales: Federal federalsales@solarwinds.com
State and local governmentsales@solarwinds.com
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Let us know how we can help you

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