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Section 3 · Database integrations

Set up Oracle Database monitoring with Grafana Cloud integrations

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Oracle Database integration

Oracle Database is a multi-model relational database management system used widely in enterprise environments. The Oracle Database integration monitors session and process activity, tablespace utilization, and wait events.

What it monitorsSessions, processes, tablespace usage, wait times, resource limits, and oracledb_up availability
How it worksGrafana Alloy’s built-in OracleDB exporter scrapes metrics from your Oracle instance using Oracle Instant Client
What you get3 alerts + 2 dashboards (Oracle Database overview and Oracle Database logs)
PrerequisitesOracle Instant Client installed on the Alloy host with ORACLE_HOME set (Alloy 1.9.0+), plus a monitoring user with specific SELECT grants

What you’ll see in the dashboards

  • Sessions and processes: Active sessions, process counts, and how close you are to configured limits
  • Tablespace utilization: Used vs. allocated space across tablespaces
  • Wait events: Which categories of waits are consuming time inside the database
  • Resource limits: Current values against v$resource_limit thresholds
  • Availability: oracledb_up for at-a-glance health

Key alerts

AlertSeverity
OracledbReachingSessionLimitCritical
OracledbReachingProcessLimitCritical
OracledbTablespaceReachingCapacityCritical

Documentation

View the Oracle Database integration documentation.

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