Oracle Monitoring Tools

An Introduction to DBTuna for Oracle

Now that the DBTuna performance management solution has been extended to cover Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g database we have great coverage of the most popular and widely used database technologies of today.

DBTuna for Oracle uses exactly the same resource consumption and wait state approach to monitoring as the MySQL and SQL Server versions. Tiny snapshots are taken sub-second which builds up a complete picture of what is happening on your Oracle instance. Within minutes DBTuna can capture and display which users, programs, machines, modules and sessions are active within the instance, also which schema they are active in, and most importantly what SQL they are executing.

DBTuna is designed to monitor busy production databases 24x7 without impacting on the performance of the instance. It uses agentless technology which allows it to monitor remotely, meaning that there is no agent consuming resource on the database machine. Being agentless, it also means that the installation is rapid; all you need to do is provide an Oracle user and network connectivity to the instance, nothing else.

The depth of data collected from DBTuna is comprehensive, and allows detailed drilldown. The Database Administrator can view the resource consumption profile of his Oracle instance, drill into a performance spike and then find the underlying root cause in seconds.

DBTuna maintains a repository of historical performance data. This gives the DBA the ability not only to see what is happening now, but what has happened over the last day, the last week or the last month. Having historical performance data greatly facilitates problem resolution and allows the DBA to answer important questions such as: i) What happened to the online application yesterday to make it slow down ii) Why is the overnight batch job still running this morning at 8:55 etc.

DBTuna is available to try now! Click on the download link to start your evaluation process.