Introduction to Oracle Database monitoring with NRDOT

Get deep insights into your Oracle Database performance with our OpenTelemetry-based monitoring solution. Track database metrics, analyze query performance, monitor resource usage, and correlate database performance with your applications.

This NRDOT-based approach complements our existing On-Host Integration (OHI) by leveraging OpenTelemetry standards for database monitoring, making it easier to integrate with your existing observability stack.

Unlike On-Host Integrations, NRDOT operates independently of the Infrastructure agent. It doesn't require the Infrastructure agent to collect database telemetry. NRDOT also includes native host monitoring capabilities, so you can choose to:

Use the Infrastructure agent for host monitoring alongside NRDOT for database monitoring, or
Use NRDOT to monitor both the database and the host.

Capabilities

OpenTelemetry standards: Integrates seamlessly with existing observability tools
Comprehensive metrics: Deep insight into database performance, wait events, and resource usage
Query-level insights: Identify and analyze slow-performing queries and session activity
Flexible deployment: Works with on-host CDB/PDB and Amazon RDS environments
APM correlation: Connect database performance to application traces

Choose your install path

You can install the NRDOT Collector for Oracle Database monitoring in the following ways:

Self-hosted environments: Manual installation on your own infrastructure
- On-host Container Database (CDB): Monitor an entire container database, including all pluggable databases under it.
- On-host Pluggable Database (PDB): Monitor an individual pluggable database.
AWS RDS environments: Cloud-managed Oracle Database monitoring
- RDS monitoring: Monitor an Oracle Database instance running in Amazon RDS.
Oracle Cloud environments: Fully managed Oracle Database monitoring
- Autonomous Database (ADB) monitoring: Monitor an Oracle Autonomous Database instance.
New Relic CLI: Install and configure the collector with a single command
Ansible: Install and configure the collector at scale using the newrelic.newrelic_install Ansible role
Chef: Install and configure the collector at scale using the newrelic-install Chef cookbook
Helm chart: Install and configure Oracle Database monitoring on Kubernetes using the oracle-otel Helm chart
Docker: Run the collector as a sibling container to an Oracle Database instance already running in Docker

Guided installation

Guided installation is available at one.newrelic.com > Integrations & Agents > Oracle (OpenTelemetry). The UI provides a guided end-to-end workflow.

Installation at a glance

Check compatibility and gather prerequisites.
Install the NRDOT Collector.
Configure the monitoring user.
Configure the NRDOT Collector.
Restart the NRDOT Collector.
Verify data is flowing to New Relic.

Next: install and configure