OCI Logging Tools for Performance Analysis

Customers can benefit from logging and analytics of their OUAF services logs using OCI logging tools. This support provides access to key OCI logging and analytics features such as centralized log management, log search and analysis, agents for custom logs, Smart Analytics with Machine Learning, dashboards for monitoring and reporting, and so on. 

The Utilities Cloud Service Platform can search and analyze logs generated by their OUAF services using OCI Logging Tools. 

OCI Logging Key Features

Centralized log management:

  • Simple, one-click experience to turn on logging across OCI resources, such as, VCNs, Object Storage, Load Balancers, and so on.
  • Secure management for all log types including audit, service, and apps.

Search and analyze logs:

  • Search and correlate logs from all sources in one view with intuitive log search language.

Take rules-based-actions:

  • Define rules to act on logs using integration with Service Connector Hub.

Agents for custom logs:

  • Deploy Agent for collecting logs from on-premises and multi-cloud resources.

Built on open standards

  • Leverages Fluentd for ingesting logs.
  • Compliant with CNCF cloudevents 1.0.

Typical use cases: Troubleshooting resource issues, auditing access, monitoring for security events, and analyzing application behavior.

Comprehensive Log Coverage Includes:

  • User access activities.
  • Business user interactions.
  • Batch processing logs (errors and outputs).

Troubleshooting application issues, monitoring security events, optimizing resource usage, and compliance reporting.

Steps to enable and configure

To enable and configure this feature, refer to  Oracle Utilities SaaS - OCI Logging Setup for Customer Telemetry Onboarding (KB917051) on My Oracle Support. 

Tips and considerations

This feature is provided as part of the standard set up, however usage charges may apply as described in Observability and Management Platform Pricing.

Key resources

Refer to the Logging section of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation for more information.