Manage Diagnostics Collection for the DB System

This article provides the details and procedure to edit diagnostic collection for the DB system.

The diagnostics collection and notifications feature enables Oracle Cloud Operations and you to identify, investigate, track, and resolve guest VM issues quickly and effectively. Subscribe to events to get notified about resource state changes. You can enable or disable this feature at any time.

Diagnostic events: Allow Oracle to collect and publish critical, warning, error, and information events for you. For more information, see Database Service Events.

Incident logs and trace collection: Allow Oracle to collect incident logs and traces to enable fault diagnosis and issue resolution. For more information, see Incident Logs and Trace Files.

General Information

• You are opting in with the understanding that the list of events and log files can change in the future. You can opt out of this feature at any time.
• Disabling diagnostic events and health monitoring will only prevent the collection and notification of data/events from the time you opt out. However, historical data will not be purged from Oracle Cloud Operations data repositories.
• If you had previously opted in for incident log and trace file collection and then decide to opt out when Oracle Cloud operations run a log collection job, the job will run its course and will not be canceled. However, subsequent log collections won’t happen till you opt in again to the incident logs and trace file collection option.
• The Enable health monitoring diagnostics collection for Oracle Cloud operations viewing is not available for the Oracle Base Database Service.

Procedure

1. On the DB Systems list page, select the DB system that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the DB system, see List the DB Systems.

2. On the DB system information tab, under the General information section, the Diagnostics collection status is displayed. The status would be any of the following:

   • Enabled: Both the diagnostic events and incident logs and trace file collection are opted in.
   • Disabled: Both the diagnostic events and incident logs and trace file collection are opted out.
   • Partially enabled: Either the diagnostic events or incident logs and trace file collection are opted in.
3. Select the Edit button beside the Diagnostic collection status.
4. The Edit diagnostics collection settings panel is displayed.

5. Select the Diagnostics collection as per your requirements from the following options. Unchecking all the available options will disable diagnostics collection and notification.

   • Enable diagnostic events: Enables and allows Oracle to collect and send fault notifications about critical, warning, and information events for you.
   • Enable incident logs and trace collection: Enables and allows Oracle to receive event notifications and collect incident logs and traces for fault diagnosis and issue resolution.
6. Select Save.