Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability and disaster recovery for critical databases running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). For a Cloud Ops DBA, monitoring Data Guard daily is essential to ensure the primary and standby databases remain healthy, synchronized, and ready for switchover or failover. This blog provides a step-by-step daily monitoring checklist with commands, […]
High Availability and Disaster Recovery are critical requirements for enterprise workloads in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Data Guard provides replication and failover capabilities for Oracle Databases, ensuring business continuity in case of planned or unplanned outages. This blog explains how to configure Data Guard in OCI and how to monitor its status using both […]
In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Cloud Ops DBAs often face performance issues caused by blocking sessions. A blocking session occurs when one session holds a lock on a resource and other sessions wait for that lock to be released. In cloud-hosted databases, blocking can cause query slowness, application timeouts, and even outages if not addressed […]
As a Cloud Ops DBA, one of your primary responsibilities is monitoring the performance of Oracle Cloud Databases. Key metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and IOPS (input/output operations per second) must be continuously tracked to ensure database stability and to avoid hitting resource bottlenecks. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Command Line Interface (CLI) […]