- Release Notes
- DPA 2024.4.100 release notes
- DPA 2024.4 release notes
- DPA 2024.3 release notes
- DPA 2024.2 release notes
- DPA 2023.4.300 release notes
- DPA 2023.2.100 release notes
- DPA 2023.2 and 2023.2.1 release notes
- DPA 2023.1 release notes
- DPA 2022.4 release notes
- DPA 2022.3 release notes
- DPA release notes aggregator
- DPA and DPAIM Hotfixes
- DPAIM 2024.2 release notes
- DPAIM 2024.1.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2024.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.4.2 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.4.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.4 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.3.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.3 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.2.2 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.2.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.2 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.1.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2023.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2022.4.1 release notes
- DPAIM 2022.4 release notes
- DPAIM 2022.3 release notes
- DPAIM 2020.2.6 release notes
- DPA release history
- Install or Upgrade
- Get Started
- DPA Getting Started Guide
- How do I get started with DPA?
- Register a single Oracle database instance
- Examples of investigating performance issues with DPA
- Create a DPA alert to monitor SQL statement execution time
- Create a DPA report to track wait types for a single SQL statement
- After evaluation, activate DPA licenses
- Integrate DPA with the SolarWinds Platform
- Beyond Getting Started with DPA
- DPA Getting Started: Additional resources
- Administer
- DPA Administrator Guide
- DPA introduction
- DPA licensing
- DPA license types
- DPA registration and licensing options for clustered environments
- Requirements for monitoring a database instance running in a VM cluster
- Purchase and view DPA licenses
- Activate DPA licenses
- Allocate or deallocate DPA licenses
- Troubleshoot over-allocated DPA licenses
- Deactivate your DPA licenses
- Register a database instance for monitoring with DPA
- Database instances DPA can monitor
- Register multiple database instances
- Register an Oracle database instance
- Register a SQL Server database instance
- Register a Sybase database instance
- Register a Db2 database instance
- Register a MySQL or Percona database instance
- Register a MariaDB database instance
- Register a PostgreSQL database instance and prepare for monitoring
- Register an Amazon RDS for Oracle database instance
- Register an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance
- Register an Amazon RDS for MySQL or MySQL-compatible Aurora database instance
- Register an Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instance
- Register an Azure SQL Database
- Register an Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Register an Azure Database for MySQL
- Register an Azure Database for MariaDB
- Register a SQL Server instance running in the Google Cloud Platform
- Register a MySQL instance running in the Google Cloud Platform
- Unregister a monitored database instance
- Database instance groups
- Manage connection information and monitoring
- Investigate performance issues with DPA
- Use the Trends charts to view data about wait times for an instance
- Access DPA query, table, or index advisors
- View detailed information about a query
- Investigate inefficient queries running against a table
- Investigate violations of table tuning best practices
- View index recommendations
- Configuration options and troubleshooting for PostgreSQL and MySQL table and index advisors
- Identify blocking sessions and deadlocks with DPA
- Find and investigate unusually long wait times (anomalies)
- About anomaly detection in DPA
- Add an annotation to document a change to the database
- Find SQL statements in DPA
- Manage SQL statements
- Resource metrics in DPA
- View resource metrics in DPA
- About DPA resource metric baselines
- View or change DPA resource metric thresholds
- Show or hide VMware events on metric charts
- Exclude SQL Server databases from backup metrics and backup alerts
- Disable the collection of resource metric data
- Create and manage custom resource metrics in DPA
- Metrics collected by DPA
- Oracle metrics collected by DPA
- SQL Server metrics collected by DPA
- MySQL metrics collected by DPA
- Sybase metrics collected by DPA
- Db2 metrics collected by DPA
- Azure SQL database metrics collected by DPA
- ASMI metrics collected by DPA
- PostgreSQL metrics collected by DPA
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server metrics collected by DPA
- Amazon RDS for MySQL metrics collected by DPA
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL metrics collected by DPA
- VM metrics collected by DPA
- DPA user accounts
- DPA user authentication
- Define contacts for DPA alert notifications and reports
- DPA reports
- DPA alerts
- 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
- Define email templates for alert notifications
- Import and export custom definitions and entities
- Link together separate DPA servers
- View and manage trusted certificates
- CyberArk integration
- Automate tasks with the DPA REST API
- Restart or configure DPA
- View DPA data in the SolarWinds Platform
- Architecture of the DPA Integration Module
- DPA and SAM integration with DPAIM
- DPA and SRM integration with DPAIM
- Azure SQL support with DPAIM
- DPAIM integration overview
- Requirements for the DPA Integration Module
- Prepare SAM applications for DPAIM integration
- Set up the DPA Integration Module
- Manage relationships to database instances, applications, and storage objects
- DPAIM relationship detection
- DPAIM Discovery Central
- DPA data in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- DPA alerting in the SolarWinds Platform
- DPA reporting in the SolarWinds Platform
- Database instances in the AppStack environment with DPAIM
- Customize a DPAIM view and apply limitations
- DPAIM account limitations
- Troubleshooting DPAIM issues
Define contacts for DPA alert notifications and reports
When you create an alert or schedule a report, the list of contacts determines who receives the alert notifications or the scheduled report.
Contacts store the information that DPA needs to send emails, post to a Teams or Slack channel, or send SNMP traps. Contact groups allow you to quickly select multiple recipients. As your organization changes, you can edit or delete contacts or contact groups.
Only DPA administrators can create and manage contacts.