It is unclear who orginally said 'If you can't measure it, you can't improve it', but regardless of whoever is credited be it Lord Kelvin, Peter Drucker or Yoda the message still resonates today.

Join this session where we will explore the need for Full Stack Observability and Monitoring, we will compare Monitoring and Observability and discuss the three pilars of Observability and the need for a holistic, metric based approach to manage complex systems.

We will introduce the Prometheus exporter for Oracle and review the of the out-of-the box metrics, and see how we can create some custom metrics and obtain metrics from our supporting infrastructrure.

We will finish the presentaion showing how can troubleshoot performance issues by looking at metrics captured from an Oracle 23c database workload and the supporting infrastructure cab be visualised in custom 'single pain of glass' Grafana dashboard.