3 Optimize IT Resources

Use Oracle IT Analytics to view the current trend of IT resource utilization, and use this information to forecast your future resource requirements.

As a business analyst or IT manager, you can use Oracle IT Analytics to:

• Analyze resource consumption by various dimensions, such as platform and lifecycle usage.

• Plan for future growth by forecasting consumption of resources by databases and middleware systems, and identifying hosts that are likely to run out of capacity.

• Compare resource usage across prior periods to identify unexpected growth.

If you see a break in the graphs in the applications, then it could be because the entities weren’t using any resources during that time period, and so no data was collected. This behavior is applicable to all entities and graphs.

Topics:

• Read This Before You Begin

• Analyze Database Resources

• Analyze App Server Resources

• Analyze Host Resources

• Analyze Exadata Resources

Note:

Oracle IT Analytics retains the raw data (the metric data that is collected and uploaded by agents on the target hosts) for eight days. Before purging the raw data, it rolls up the data into hourly and daily intervals. The rolled up data is then retained for 13 months to provide historical metric information. Data becomes inaccessible at the end of the 13-month period.