Use Events and Notifications to Watch Resource Activity

When Oracle Autonomous Database performs operations on resources, it sends events to the Events service. Using the Events service, you can create rules to capture these events and perform actions such as sending you emails using the Notifications service.

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See Notifications Use Case: Emails for Maintenance Events for a short end-to-end example of using the Events and Notifications services in this way.

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For a "try it out" demonstration for setting up Autonomous Database event notifications through OCI Notification Service, see Lab 11: OCI Notification Service in Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated for Fleet Administrators Workshop.

This combination of Autonomous Database events, the Events service and the Notification service provide a very rich set of options for keeping abreast of resource activity because:

  • Autonomous Database generates events for more than forty different operations, providing you fine-grained choices for resource tracking.

    For listings of the operations that generate events for Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud, see Events for Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure.

    For listings of the operations that generate events for Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, see Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer Events.

  • The Events service supports arbitrary grouping of events in a single rule, providing flexible aggregation of the events you are interested in.

    For more information about how the Events service works and how to set up the rules and actions it uses, see Overview of Events.

  • The Notifications service supports sending notices to email, PagerDuty, Slack, custom HTTPS urls or Oracle Functions, providing you a wide variety of communication channels.

    For more information about how the Notifications service works and how to set up the topics and subscriptions it uses, see Notifications Overview.

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