SHERPA – Database Performance Monitoring Platform

Unified monitoring and analysis for enterprise database performance

Sherpa provides centralized, real-time monitoring and analysis of database performance across multiple RDBMS environments.

Technical Overview

  • Centralized monitoring architecture for multiple database instances
  • Direct collection of databases, sessions, SQL, and OS performance metrics
  • Instance-level, group-level, and system-wide performance visibility
  • Real-time diagnostics with historical trend and baseline comparison
  • Peak-time investigation using high-resolution performance data
  • Designed for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments

Core Capabilities

  • Centralized monitoring of multiple RDBMS platforms
  • Real-time collection of SQL, session, wait-event, and OS metrics
  • SQL execution analysis with execution plan visibility
  • Session monitoring including long-running and locking sessions
  • Peak-time analysis using one-second running session snapshots
  • Top-N analysis for SQL, users, applications, and system components
  • Custom SQL-based dashboards, alerts, and reporting
  • Historical trend analysis, heatmaps, and baseline comparison
  • Detection of execution plan changes, full table scans, and literal SQL

Technical Benefits

  • Faster root-cause analysis through detailed SQL and session visibility
  • Early detection of performance degradation and abnormal behavior
  • Reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR) for database incidents
  • Simplified operations through unified monitoring across environments
  • Scalable monitoring architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud databases

Technical Datasheet Alignment

  • Type: Database Performance Monitoring (DPM) platform
  • Deployment: On-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments
  • Primary Use Cases: Real-time database performance monitoring, SQL and session analysis, peak-time troubleshooting, and proactive performance optimization

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