Documentation for Database Performance Analyzer

DPA alerts

Use DPA alerts to become aware of issues and address them proactively before they affect end users. Set thresholds on key wait time statistics, resource metrics, or standard administration indicators. The result is improved customer service, fewer help desk tickets, and increased compliance with database service-level agreements.

To work with DPA alerts, see the following topics:

View the status and history of DPA alerts

Acknowledge or unacknowledge a DPA alert

DPA alert categories and types

Create a DPA Wait Time alert

Create a DPA Resources alert

Create a DPA Administrative alert

Create a DPA Custom alert

Create and manage rules to determine which database instances are assigned to alerts

Configure a foreign data wrapper to collect data from multiple PostgreSQL databases

Edit the definition of an existing DPA alert

Stop DPA alerts for a period of time

Create a DPA alert group

Notification policy for DPA alerts

Send DPA alert notifications to a third-party notification service through SolarWinds Observability SaaS

For information about creating or editing the email template that defines the contents of alert notifications, see Create or edit a custom email template for DPA alert notifications.

For information about setting up the email server that DPA uses to send notifications, see Configure the mail server used to send DPA emails.