- Release Notes
- DPA 2024.4.200 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 release notes aggregator
- 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
- 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 MySQL 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
- DPA user accounts
- DPA user authentication
- Define contacts for DPA alert notifications and reports
- DPA reports
- DPA alerts
- 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
DPA Installation and Upgrade Guide
Use this guide to prepare for installation and install Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). It also provides instructions for upgrading and uninstalling DPA.
View as a PDF
- DPA Installation and Upgrade Guide
- DPA deployment overview
- Prepare to install DPA on a self-managed server
- DPA 2024.4.200 system requirements
- Install DPA
- Create the DPA repository database
- Uninstall DPA
- Upgrade DPA
Existing customers: Access your licensed software from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. If you need any implementation help, contact our Support Reps.
Evaluators: Download your free 14-day evaluation from www.solarwinds.com. If you need assistance with your evaluation, contact sales@solarwinds.com.