2 The Dashboard

Availability icon Available only if you signed in as a database user with the DBA role.

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. When you click the title:

    • For Oracle Database 19c and later releases, the Performance Hub page is displayed.

    • For Oracle Database 18c and previous releases, the Activity-Waits page is displayed.

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