In a previous blog post I explored how we can use Oracle’s rich V$ views to monitor CPU utilization on the host on which our database is running, as well as the IO generated by all nodes of the database.

Numbers are great, but it would be even better to see the loads represented graphically on a dashboard for an immediate read on how the database and the underlying infrastructure is handling the workload.

In this blog post I will use the Grafana visualization package to create a simple performance dashboard for our Oracle database.

There is a video for this blog

All code is available on GitHub

If you are looking for Part II, you can find it here
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