DPA new feature summary
Use the following table to compare features in supported versions of DPA. For a complete list of all features, see the release notes for each version.
| Feature | 2024.4 | 2024.3 | 2024.2 | 2023.4 | 2023.2 | 2023.1 | 2022.4 | 2022.3 |
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| Table and index advisors for MySQL and Percona instances |
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| Support for the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin |
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| Support for gMSAs |
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| Platform Connect to send alert notifications to ServiceNow and PagerDuty |
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| Table and index advisors for PostgreSQL |
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| Alert information in DPA Central |
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| Azure SQL Database instance or ASMI instances can authenticate the monitoring user with a Microsoft Entra service principal |
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| DPA Central performance improvements |
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| HTTPS connections required |
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| SAML authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure AD) |
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| Improved import of alerts, rules, and custom properties |
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| Import and export of alerts, rules, and custom properties |
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| Utility to encrypt the keystore password stored in the Tomcat server configuration file |
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| Index advisors |
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| SAML authentication with Okta |
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| Additional PostgreSQL alerts |
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| API endpoints to manage encryption |
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| Google Cloud SQL for MySQL support |
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| Automatic rule-based assignment of database instances to alerts |
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| Alert notifications in Slack and Teams |
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| Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server support |
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| Alert acknowledgement and improved alert status and details interface |
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| Custom property GUI |
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| Database instance registration without entering privileged user credentials |
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| CyberArk integration |
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| Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL support |
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| SSL authentication |
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| Find SQL feature |
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| User Manager role |
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| Alerts and metrics to track information about SQL Server backups and the TempDB database |
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| Support for monitoring PostgreSQL database instances |
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| Notification when a triggered alert returns to Normal |
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| Trusted certificate management |
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| Custom email templates for alert notifications |
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| Table tuning best practices |
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| VM co-stop metrics |
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| Support for Azure SQL Managed Instances (ASMIs) as monitored instances |
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| DPA 12.1 feature: Anomaly detection |
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| DPA 12.1 feature: REST API |
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| DPA 12.0 feature: Query performance analysis |
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| DPA 12.0 feature: Table advisors |
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| Aggregated tuning advice on the Tuning tab |
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| Blocking session data in PerfStack |
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| DPAIM 11.1 feature: DPA data in PerfStack |
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| Improved wait time status meter |
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| Subscription licensing for AWS DPA servers |
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| DPA 11.1 feature: Improved monitoring of SQL Server Availability Groups |
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| Support for Azure SQL and Amazon RDS for Aurora as monitored databases or the DPA repository |
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| Availability Group status information |
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| Oracle adaptive plan support |
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| Support for MySQL as the DPA repository |
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| Detailed blocking and locking information for SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase |
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| Idle blocker information for SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase |
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| Deadlock information for SQL Server 2012 and later |
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| Active Directory/LDAP configuration wizard |
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| Support for SQL Server 2016 as a monitored database or the DPA repository |
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| Support for monitoring Oracle 12c database instances with multi-tenant architecture |
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| Support for Oracle 12c PDB as the DPA repository |
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| Option to deactivate license keys offline |
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| Support for monitoring MySQL database instances |
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| Baseline data for resource metrics |
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| Support for the DPA Integration Module |
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| Instance-based licensing |
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| Ability to deploy SolarWinds DPA in Amazon EC2® |
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| Support for monitoring Amazon RDS#8482; instances |
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| Ability to add time-stamped annotations to Trend charts |
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| Ability to exclude SQL statements from Trend charts |
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| Predicate information for Oracle explain plans |
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| Support for IBM DB2 10.5, Microsoft SQL Server 2014, and single-tenant Oracle 12c as monitored database instances or the DPA repository |
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| Storage I/O view |
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| SQL query analysis and performance advice |
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| Files and Drives tab for Microsoft SQL Server database instances |
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| Alerts based on resource metrics |
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| Blackout periods for alerts |
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| Baseline data for resource metrics in the Trends view |
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| OpenLDAP support |
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DPA 2020.2 is the earliest supported version of SolarWinds DPA. For more information about supported product versions, see DPA release history.