Azure Monitor

This topic explains how to monitor your Oracle Database@Azure resources using Azure Monitor.

Access Monitoring Services

These are the steps to access monitoring services from the Azure portal.

  1. From the Azure portal, select Oracle Database@Azure.
  2. From the left menu, select the service and resource under the service that you want to monitor.
  3. Expand the Monitoring section, and then select the Metrics.This screenshot shows the monitoring tab of VM cluster.

Metrics

Oracle Database@Azure provides a mechanism within Azure to monitor Oracle Database services. The related metrics are organized within the following metric namespace.

Table 1-2

Resource Type Azure Metric Namespace
Oracle Exadata VM Cluster

Oracle.Database/cloudVmClusters

Oracle Exascale VM Cluster

Oracle.Database/exadbVmClusters

Oracle Autonomous Database

Oracle.Database/autonomousDatabases

Oracle Base Database

OracleDatabaseAtAzure-BaseDB

Complete the following steps to monitor metrics.

  1. From the Azure portal, click on the hamburger menu, and then select Monitor.
  2. Select the Metrics section, select the required Oracle Database resource type and location for filtering.This screenshot shows how to monitor metrics.
  3. Select the concerned resource, and select Apply.
  4. Select the concerned metrics.
  5. Apply filter as needed, which will be considered as dimension when converting to alert rule.This screenshot shows how to monitor metrics.
  6. You can add additional chart as needed.
  7. After creating your chart, you can create a new alert, drill into Logs and save the result to dashboard.
  8. Select New Alert rule to create alert and input the desired Threshold.
  9. Select the Action Groups.
  10. Fill in the details for the alert.
  11. Review and select Create to proceed.This screenshot shows how to monitor metrics.
Note

Azure and OCI use different metrics aggregation methods. For more information, see Azure Monitor Metrics aggregation and display explained.