Metrics
Use the database instance navigator to review performance, resource consumption, active sessions, workload, query metrics, and system metrics for a selected database instance.
The Metrics tab provides curated, system-level performance charts. These charts display telemetry collected by the OpenTelemetry Collector and help you monitor the underlying infrastructure and resource limits of the database instance.
- Metric categories
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To help you isolate issues quickly, charts are grouped in the left menu.
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Performance: Charts related to database execution speed, throughput, and work rates.
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Resource Usage: Charts that track memory consumption, active locks, and system limit utilization.
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Connections: Charts that track connection allocation, active and inactive connections, and connection pool utilization.
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Storage: Charts that track tablespace usage, disk I/O, and storage capacity limits.
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- Chart features
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Each metric chart includes interactive controls to help you investigate anomalies.
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Time Window Indicator: Displays the aggregation window for the metric data, such as
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Alert Bell Icon: Opens active alert rules associated with the metric or lets you create a detector.
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More Options: Provides options to view the raw metric in the Metric Finder, add the chart to a custom dashboard, or copy the chart link.
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- Detailed metrics reference
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For a complete list of the raw metrics collected by the OpenTelemetry Collector and displayed in these charts, see Database telemetry and metrics reference.