Re: application monitoring best practices

From: Kevin Jernigan <kevin.jernigan_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:51:32 -0700
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Don't get me started - it's part of my job to spread the word about the "sleeper" features in the database, such as temporal, CQN, in-db archiving, etc...KJ
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On 8/27/13 1:14 PM, Mark Bobak wrote:

> Damn, never even *heard* of that feature! Never ceases to amaze me how
> many new Oracle features go unnoticed for who knows how long!
>
>
> Thanks Kevin!
>
> -Mark
> On 8/27/13 3:58 PM, "Kevin Jernigan" <kevin.jernigan_at_oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Have you looked at Continuous Query Notification - CQN
>> <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e41502/adfns_cqn.htm#ADFNS
>> 018>?
>> -KJ
>>
>> Kevin Jernigan
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>> On 8/27/2013 12:48 PM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
>>> Have a question for the list. What do you think would be the best way
>>> to
>>> provide a set of schema-specific alerts with fairly sophisticated
>>> trigger
>>> and notification settings? OEM (or your general network monitoring
>>> tool)
>>> or some custom code closer to the application?
>>> I have several cases where I need to provide one-off alerts for things
>>> like
>>> "number of rows in this table exceeds threshold" and the alerts aren't
>>> for
>>> me personally but for other business groups. Need specific alert
>>> messages
>>> for "critical" and "clear" thresholds and also the ability to
>>> re-generate
>>> critical alerts every X hours if the condition continues. Also want to
>>> tweak how frequently each check is run (between every 5 to 15 minutes).
>>>
>>> OEM provides a great framework for handling all sorts of notification
>>> situations. I can define the SQL as a Metric Extension. However I'm
>>> currently using Administration Groups to automatically apply generic
>>> monitoring templates across a broad set of databases... and it seems
>>> against this philosophy to start having custom thresholds or
>>> notifications
>>> on a per-database (not to mention per-schema) level. Nonetheless it
>>> seems
>>> that any other approach involves a degree of re-inventing the wheel
>>> when it
>>> comes to the alerts, thresholds, repeated notifications, etc.
>>>
>>> Thoughts? What's a good architecture for this - am I missing something
>>> obvious?
>>>
>>> -Jeremy
>>>
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