The centerpiece of Oracle’s integrated observability and management solution, Application Performance Monitoring provides observability for end-to-end visibility and diagnosis across the entire IT environment. Using distributed transaction tracing, it connects user experiences with underlying technology to automate problem identification and diagnosis with a business-centric approach.
Introduction to Oracle Application Performance Monitoring.
APM is a robust implementation of a Distributed Tracing System as a Service. It enables devops teams to track every step of every transaction (no sampling, no aggregation) of new and older applications running on OCI, on-premises, or on other public clouds. The service provides effective monitoring for microservices-based applications as well as legacy, multi-tier applications.
Using open standard like OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry, the service can monitor all the common programing languages. A dedicated Java agent extends the coverage to the older generation J2EE applications, allowing End-to-End transaction tracing for hybrid environments. These capabilities, combined with Logging Analytics enables developers and IT operations staff to perform the following:
Get automatic alerts on performance, availability, and load analysis based on a rich set of metrics enabled by instance level observation, which traces each individual transaction.
Find the exact execution details of any transaction, in real time or over long periods with comprehensive instance level diagnostics. Distributed tracing is compatible with OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry such as Zipkin and Jaeger.
Get insights into application behavior using a flexible query language. Filter and cluster trace data using out of the box or custom dimensions for comprehensive analysis.
Delivering great end-user experience is a tough job for any application manager. APM reduces this burden by providing monitoring to track the actual experiences of each end-user, all the time, no matter where and how they access the application.
Enables the collection of data from browser to app and measure true end-to-end user experience.
Traces each individual user session end-to-end for diagnostics. Helpdesk employees can use this capability to document problems that are otherwise hard to reproduce.
Connects the actions of each individual end-user to the back-end trace, enabling quick resolution to problems experienced by them. It also enables impact analysis for back-end problems, allowing DevOps staff to prioritize issues affecting large groups of end-users.
Proactive monitoring helps developers and operators prevent issues before users are impacted. Synthetic monitoring provides the ability to run scheduled, scripted monitors to ensure application availability.
Monitor a single URL or create scripts (.side files) via Selenium IDE and execute them from within APM to visualize potential problems and understand flows by collecting and retrieving HTTP Archive (HAR) files and Screenshots.
Monitor a single REST API or create scripts (JavaScript file) via Postman to execute a sequence of dependent API interactions which can be used to monitor APIs used on Custom applications, SaaS service integrations or third-party applications.
The actions of each monitor run are connected to the back-end trace, enabling quick resolution to problems experienced test executions. It also enables impact analysis for back-end problems, allowing DevOps to prioritize issues on Services or Network issues that could be affecting large groups of end-users.
Execute the monitors from multiple locations (vantage points), available in all OCI data centers.
Pull metrics from any component and collect cloud native metrics at scale. Take advantage of existing Prometheus exporters or write custom metrics source to have the exact metrics needed for optimal monitoring.
Collect metrics from Java virtual machines (JVM’s). Out-of-the-box configurations for Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and other popular app servers can be extended to collect any Java Management Extensions (JMX) data.
Use OCI Monitoring service for alarms and notifications. Integration with OCI Logging Analytics provides drill-down into related logs for the application experiencing issues. Out-of-the-box and custom dashboards can be created to show APM collected data (server metrics and metrics based on trace data) together with log data and other data sources utilizing the monitoring service.
Stack Monitoring provides discovery and monitoring of applications and application stack technologies running on OCI or on-premises. Get full-stack visibility into the health of applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), and their underlying application servers, databases, and hosts – all viewable together using a single solution.
Use one-click discovery to discover all components of applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite or application stack technologies such as Oracle WebLogic Domain and Oracle Database. Later leverage the automatically constructed application topology to troubleshoot issues across the application stack.
After discovery, a curated set of status and performance metrics are automatically collected for each resource type in the stack. Immediately monitor the status, performance and overall health of each resource individually, or collectively using the application stack view.
Use Enterprise Summary to monitor applications across the entire enterprise, running on-premises or on the cloud. Get a high level summary of open alarms, identify issues of concern, and drilldown to resource-specific homepages to further investigate. Use homepages to review resource-specific alarms, understand hotspots and high resource consumers, troubleshoot performance across the stack.
Use OCI Monitoring to trigger alarms when resources are down, resources are maxed out, or performance is slow. From alarms shown in Stack Monitoring homepages, drilldown to OCI monitoring to access details about the alarm.