RE: EM12c AWS RDS plugin

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Sharman <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:21:33 +0100

I'm preparing my mouth to be properly washed out! The plugin for RDS does
indeed have significantly limited functionality compared with em express/db
console  - the blog Pete pointed to lists the metrics available. If you
were to go the EC2 route you could of course install your own agent  (it
maybe that Jeremiah has a pointer to a white paper on this).

I'd be interested to know how others are finding shared cloud db hosting in
practice;  what good monitoring and tuning practice looks like. It seems to
me that mostly services like RDS and Oracle's cloud are best treated as
opaque  (rather than black ) boxes. You likely can get monitoring info out,
but a significant number of tuning options will come down to change the
code or pay more for a larger instance. I guess this is the pets vs cattle
metaphor  (or Gartner's mode 1 vs mode 2 IT) as applied to the db world.

On 11 Aug 2016 22:05, "Peter Sharman" <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave

I’ve not used the plugin at all, but this blog
<https://blogs.oracle.com/zerotocloud/entry/amazon_web_services_aws_plug>
would certainly indicate there’s a lot more to it than what you’re seeing.
It might be worthwhile reviewing that and the further reading section at
the bottom.  If you have any questions after that reach back out to me and
I’ll see if I can find some further contacts for you to follow up with.

Pete

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*From:* Herring, David [mailto:HerringD@xxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2016 06:43 AM
*To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* EM12c AWS RDS plugin

Has anyone worked with the EM12c AWS RDS plugin and found any value in
what it provides?  I ask because we have 4 instances deployed on AWS RDS
and through the mentinoed plugin I can see these instances but as far as I
can tell all that's monitored is their status and Disk I/O.  We were hoping
for a little more umph as compared to what we normally get with targets in
EM12c but if that's all the plugin can provide and no one has found a way
to add additional metrics/features then we'll probably stick with database
control on the RDS.

Thx.

Regards,

Dave

References:
- EM12c AWS RDS plugin
  - From: Herring, David
- RE: EM12c AWS RDS plugin
  - From: Peter Sharman

RE: EM12c AWS RDS plugin

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