2 The Dashboard

Available only if you signed in as a database user with administrator rights.

The Dashboard displays general status information about the database and provides quick links to commonly used pages.

• Database Status: Displays the overall status of the database.

• Alerts: Displays the number of Error alerts in the alert log. You can click this item to open the Alerts page.

• Database Storage: Displays how much storage is being used by the database. You can click this item to open the Storage page.

• Sessions: Displays the status of open sessions in the database. You can click the title to open the Sessions page.

• Physical IO Panel: Displays the rates of physical reads and writes of database data.

• Waits: Displays how many wait events are occurring in the database by wait event class.

• Quick Links: Provides buttons to open the Worksheet, Data Modeler, and Performance Hub pages. It also provides a button to open the Oracle Application Express sign-in page for the current database.