CHAPTER 12

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Monitoring Exadata Performance

By now, you have learned about the key Exadata performance features and the related performance metrics. Let’s see how you can use these for everyday tasks. In this chapter, you will read about standard tools available for database-layer and cell-performance monitoring, as well as how to interpret their output.

Oracle Database and the Exadata cells provide a huge variety of different metrics, but, before monitoring any metrics, you should ask yourself why you are monitoring them. Additionally, you should know what your action would be if a metric crosses some threshold. This leads to the follow-up question: ...

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