• RELEASE NOTES
  • GET STARTED
    • How do I get started with DPA?
    • Register database instances
      • Register a single SQL Server database instance
      • Register a virtual machine and view performance data
    • Examples of investigating performance issues with DPA
      • The DPA approach to investigating performance issues
      • Investigate an application performance problem with DPA
      • Investigate an increase in wait time with DPA
      • Investigate a wait time anomaly 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 Orion Platform
    • Beyond Getting Started with DPA
  • Install or Upgrade
    • DPA installation overview
    • DPA installation preflight checklist
    • DPA system and monitoring requirements
      • DPA system requirements
      • Database versions you can monitor
      • Requirements for monitoring MySQL database instances
    • Install DPA
      • Install DPA on Windows
      • Install DPA on Linux
      • Install DPA on Azure Marketplace
    • Create the repository database
      • Create a SQL Server repository database
      • Create an Oracle repository database
      • Create a MySQL repository database
      • Create an Azure SQL Database repository database
    • Uninstall DPA
    • Upgrade DPA
      • Upgrade DPA on Windows
      • Upgrade DPA on Linux
      • Upgrade DPA on an Amazon Machine Image instance
      • Upgrade DPA on an Azure VM
  • Administer
    • Introduction
      • Introduction to DPA
      • DPA architecture
    • 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
      • Register a SQL Server database
      • Register a Sybase database
      • Register a DB2 database
      • Register a MySQL database
      • Register an Amazon RDS for Oracle database
      • Register an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database
      • Register an Amazon RDS for MySQL or Aurora database
      • Register an Azure SQL database
      • Unregister a monitored database instance
    • Database instance groups
      • About monitoring SQL Server Availability Groups with DPA
      • About monitoring Oracle multitenent databases (CDBs)
      • Manually group database instances
    • Monitor database instances with DPA
      • Update a monitored database instance
      • Stop monitoring a database instance for a period of time
      • DPA troubleshooting tips
    • Investigate performance issues with DPA
      • Access DPA query or table tuning advisors
      • Use DPA's query performance analysis to find the root cause of performance issues
      • Investigate inefficient queries running against a table
      • 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
    • Manage SQL statement properties
      • Name SQL statements
      • Exclude SQL statements from DPA charts and analysis
      • Add excluded SQL statements back to DPA charts and analysis
    • Resource metrics in DPA
      • View resource metrics in DPA
      • About DPA resource metric baselines
      • View or change DPA resource metric thresholds
    • DPA user accounts
      • DPA roles and privileges
      • Create a DPA user account and assign privileges
      • DPA user authentication options
      • Configure DPA to use Active Directory or LDAP
    • DPA alerts
      • View the status of DPA alerts
      • Configure a DPA alert
      • Send SNMP traps from DPA alerts
      • Stop DPA alerts for a period of time
      • Use DPA to alert on increases in SQL wait times
      • Create a custom DPA alert to display the name of the active node in a SQL Server cluster
      • Create a DPA alert group
      • Create and manage DPA contacts and contact groups
      • Notification policy for DPA alerts
    • DPA reports
      • About DPA reports
      • Access and run DPA reports
      • Create a DPA report
      • Search for a SQL statement to report on
      • Schedule a DPA report for email delivery
      • Create a DPA report group
    • Link together separate DPA servers
      • Set up a Central Server and add remote DPA servers
      • Configure authentication for the DPA Central Server
      • View information from remote servers on the DPA Central Server
      • Advanced configuration for the DPA Central Server
    • Automate tasks with the DPA REST API
      • Manage the tokens used for authentication to the DPA API
      • Learn about and experiment with the DPA API
      • Examples of using Python scripts to make DPA API calls
      • Examples of using PowerShell scripts to make DPA API calls
    • DPA administrative tasks
      • Stop and start DPA
      • Set advanced DPA configuration options
      • Enable SNMP Monitoring in SCOM
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Administer > Database instance groups
  • Introduction
  • DPA licensing
  • Register a database instance for monitoring with DPA
  • Database instance groups
    • About monitoring SQL Server Availability Groups with DPA
    • About monitoring Oracle multitenent databases (CDBs)
    • Manually group database instances
  • Monitor database instances with DPA
  • Investigate performance issues with DPA
  • Manage SQL statement properties
  • Resource metrics in DPA
  • DPA user accounts
  • DPA alerts
  • DPA reports
  • Link together separate DPA servers
  • Automate tasks with the DPA REST API
  • DPA administrative tasks

Database instance groups

See the following topics for information about creating and monitoring groups in DPA:

  • About monitoring SQL Server Availability Groups with DPA describes the information that DPA provides about SQL Server AGs.
  • About monitoring Oracle multitenent databases (CDBs) describes the information that DPA provides about Oracle CDBs.
  • Manually group database instances in DPA describes how to create and modify custom groups.