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= Why DBCollect =
= Why DBCollect =
* Why can't we just send some AWR reports? AWR reports are great but have a few problems and limitations for our purpose:
** AWR only provides performance and limited configuration metrics. There is no database size/config information such as sizes of tablespaces, redo logs, temp files, segments, ASM disks/diskgroups, archive/flashback/bct files
** No OS configuration or hardware information (such as CPU type & model)
** No disk/network configuration
** No UNIX SAR/sysstat performance data
** No compression, backup, archiving details
** AWRs are sometimes generated using non-English locale (cannot be parsed)
** AWRs are sometimes generated in txt format instead of html (hard to parse, error-prone)
** AWRs are sometimes provided as RAC versions (completely different layout, hard to parse)
** Usually only a few AWRs are provided, sometimes with a very large interval (many hours or even days) which is not detailed enough to do accurate sizings or performance analysis
** No way to know if there are other instances on the same system for which we need to know details

Revision as of 07:21, 27 August 2025


Why DBCollect

  • Why can't we just send some AWR reports? AWR reports are great but have a few problems and limitations for our purpose:
    • AWR only provides performance and limited configuration metrics. There is no database size/config information such as sizes of tablespaces, redo logs, temp files, segments, ASM disks/diskgroups, archive/flashback/bct files
    • No OS configuration or hardware information (such as CPU type & model)
    • No disk/network configuration
    • No UNIX SAR/sysstat performance data
    • No compression, backup, archiving details
    • AWRs are sometimes generated using non-English locale (cannot be parsed)
    • AWRs are sometimes generated in txt format instead of html (hard to parse, error-prone)
    • AWRs are sometimes provided as RAC versions (completely different layout, hard to parse)
    • Usually only a few AWRs are provided, sometimes with a very large interval (many hours or even days) which is not detailed enough to do accurate sizings or performance analysis
    • No way to know if there are other instances on the same system for which we need to know details