Before you Begin

This 15-minute tutorial shows you how to analyze the usage tracking data stored in your usage tracking database in Oracle Analytics.

Background

When you create or view existing content such as analyses, data visualizations, or reports from your dashboard, Oracle Analytics populates the query in the usage tracking tables in the usage tracking database. In this tutorial, you connect to your usage tracking database and create usage reports to understand the user queries in Oracle Analytics.

This is the second tutorial in Track Usage in Oracle Analytics. Read the tutorials in the order listed.

• Set Up Usage Tracking in Oracle Analytics
• Analyze Usage Tracking Data in Oracle Analytics

What Do You Need?

• Access to Oracle Analytics
• Access to Oracle Database Cloud Service instance and these connection details:
  • Host name
  • Port number
  • Database service name
  • User name and password that match the name of a schema available in the database

Create a Connection to Your Usage Tracking Database

In this section, you create a connection to the database that you specified for storing the usage tracking data.

1. On the Home page, click Create, then click Connection.
2. In Create Connection, click Oracle Database.
3. Enter UT Database in Connection Name.
4. Enter the IP address or URL of your database server Host.
5. Enter the Port number that the database server is listening to for incoming connections.
6. Enter the User Name that you specified in the connection pool.
7. Enter the Password for the user name specified in the connection pool.
8. Enter the Service Name for the network service name of your database.
9. Click Save .

Create a Usage Visualization

In this section, create a dataset with the LOGICALQUERIES and PHYSICALQUERIES tables, so that you can create visualizations that provide usage insights.

1. On the Home page, click Create, and then click Dataset.
2. In Create Dataset, click UT Database connection.
3. In New Dataset, expand the UsageTracking schema. Hold down the Crtl key, select the LOGICALQUERIES and PHYSICALQUERIES tables, and then drag them to the Join Diagram.
4. Click Save . In Save Dataset as, enter Usage Tracking.
5. Click Create Workbook.
6. Select data elements from the LOGICALQUERIES and PHYSICALQUERIES tables to create visualizations.

   
   

   Your data reflects the Oracle Analytics usage on your instance and depend on the settings you specified in the Console Usage Tracking parameters.

   The scatter visualization shows the number of database queries and the number of cache hits by query text, filtered by subject area to reduce the number of data points.

   

   Description of the illustration logical_scatter_viz.png

Learn More

• About Usage Tracking
• Create a Connection for an Oracle Database
• Begin to Build a Workbook and Create Visualizations
• Add Data Sets to a Workbook

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Analyze Usage Tracking Data in Oracle Analytics

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March 2025

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