A dashboard is a data visualization tool that gathers critical metrics from the database and provides an insight into the performance of the database. The metrics are displayed in easy-to-interpret widgets in the dashboard and help identify outliers and take corrective action.

Before you use dashboards in Database Management, you must have the required Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service and Management Dashboard permissions. For information on these additional permissions, see Additional Permissions Required to Use Database Management.

To access dashboards in Database Management:

1. Sign in to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console.
2. Open the navigation menu, click Observability & Management. Under Database Management, click Dashboards.

On the Dashboards page, you can use the Oracle-defined dashboards for Database Management or create custom dashboards that meet your specific requirements.

Information on the Oracle-defined dashboards for Database Management is provided in this section and for detailed information on how to use Management Dashboard features, see Management Dashboard documentation. Here are some links to the important sections in the Management Dashboard documentation. For information on how to:

• Set up the policies required to work with Management Dashboard, see Get Started with Management Dashboard.
• Create a custom dashboard and perform other dashboard-related tasks, see Manage Dashboards.
• Create widgets and perform other widget-related tasks, see Manage Widgets.
• Use filters, see About Filters.