Install & configure NRDOT Collector for on-host PDB monitoring

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Get comprehensive insights into your Oracle Pluggable Database (PDB) performance with database monitoring, query analysis, and system health metrics using the New Relic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (NRDOT) collector.

Guided installation

To install through the New Relic UI instead, go to one.newrelic.com > Integrations & Agents > Oracle (OpenTelemetry) . This page covers the CLI install path only.

Tip

If you need to monitor the entire container database rather than an individual pluggable database, refer to CDB instrumentation.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following:

Valid New Relic license key
Supported architecture: Linux with AMD64 and ARM64
Network connectivity to New Relic OTLP endpoint
Oracle Database 19c or later

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Install NRDOT Collector

Select the appropriate installation distribution method for your Linux environment:

For Debian/Ubuntu system, run:
bash
```
$NRDOT_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name":' | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') && curl -L "https://github.com/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/download/${NRDOT_VERSION}/nrdot-collector_${NRDOT_VERSION}_linux_amd64.deb" --output nrdot-collector.deb && sudo dpkg -i nrdot-collector.deb
```

For RHEL/CentOS/OEL system, run:

bash

$NRDOT_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name":' | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') && curl -L "https://github.com/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/download/${NRDOT_VERSION}/nrdot-collector_${NRDOT_VERSION}_linux_x86_64.rpm" --output nrdot-collector.rpm && sudo rpm -ivh nrdot-collector.rpm

For Debian/Ubuntu system, run:

bash

$NRDOT_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name":' | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') && curl -L "https://github.com/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/download/${NRDOT_VERSION}/nrdot-collector_${NRDOT_VERSION}_linux_arm64.deb" --output nrdot-collector.deb && sudo dpkg -i nrdot-collector.deb

For RHEL/CentOS/OEL system, run:

bash

$NRDOT_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name":' | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') && curl -L "https://github.com/newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases/releases/download/${NRDOT_VERSION}/nrdot-collector_${NRDOT_VERSION}_linux_arm64.rpm" --output nrdot-collector.rpm && sudo rpm -ivh nrdot-collector.rpm

Configure database user

Create a monitoring user with the necessary privileges for your PDB Oracle Database instance.

Run the following statement as SYS before creating the user or running any grants:
```
ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER = "<YOUR_PDB>";
```

Run the following statements as SYS inside your target PDB to create a local monitoring user:

CREATE USER <USER_NAME> IDENTIFIED BY "<YOUR_PASSWORD>";
GRANT CREATE SESSION TO <USER_NAME>;

Grant monitoring privileges for multitenant database

Run these commands as the SYS user inside your PDB. This gives the monitoring tool the basic access it needs to collect metrics, track events, and find your database instances.

GRANT SELECT ON V_$INSTANCE   TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$DATABASE   TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$CONTAINERS TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$DATAFILE   TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SYSSTAT                    TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SYSMETRIC                  TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SESSION                    TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$RESOURCE_LIMIT             TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$OSSTAT                     TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SGAINFO                    TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$ROWCACHE                   TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$PARAMETER                  TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS  TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_TABLESPACES               TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_DATA_FILES                TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_FREE_SPACE                TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_RECYCLEBIN                TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SQL            TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SQL_PLAN_STATISTICS_ALL       TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOCK           TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$SESSION_EVENT  TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_PROCEDURES    TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON DBA_OBJECTS       TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON V_$PDBS      TO <USER_NAME>;
GRANT SELECT ON CDB_SERVICES TO <USER_NAME>;

Configure NRDOT Collector

Configure the NRDOT Collector with your PDB-specific settings.

Create the configuration file. The filename must be oracle-config.yaml.
bash
```
$sudo nano /etc/nrdot-collector/oracle-config.yaml
```

Add the configuration content below to the oracle-config.yaml file you created in the previous step:

full configuration

This configuration focuses only on database monitoring without host infrastructure metrics. To enable full-feature monitoring, refer to the configuration reference.

Oracle PDB Hostname/IP

Oracle PDB Port

Database Username

Database Password

PDB Service Name

New Relic OTLP Endpoint

New Relic License Key

oracle-config.yaml

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receivers:
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    nroracledb:
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      endpoint: oracle.example.com:1521
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      username: newrelic
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      password: YOUR_PASSWORD
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      service: YOUR_PDB_SERVICE_NAME
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      collection_interval: 10s
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      events:
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        db.server.query_sample:
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          enabled: true
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        db.server.top_query:
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          enabled: true
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        db.server.session.wait_sample:
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          enabled: true
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      top_query_collection:
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        max_query_sample_count: 1000
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        top_query_count: 200
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        collection_interval: 60s
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        allowed_comment_keys:
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          - nr_service_guid
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      query_sample_collection:
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        max_rows_per_query: 100
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        allowed_comment_keys:
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          - nr_service_guid
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      session_wait_event_collection:
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        max_rows_per_query: 100
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      # Metrics configuration - organized by category
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      metrics:
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        # === CPU & Performance Metrics ===
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        oracledb.cpu_time:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.database.cpu.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.host.cpu.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Execution & Parse Metrics ===
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        oracledb.executions:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.execution.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracledb.parse.type
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parse_calls:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parse.rate:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracledb.parse.result
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parse.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.hard_parses:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === I/O & Physical Read/Write Metrics ===
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        oracledb.logical_reads:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_reads:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_reads_direct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_writes:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_writes_direct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_read_io_requests:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_write_io_requests:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === New Physical I/O Metrics (detailed) ===
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        oracledb.physical_io.cache_writes:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_io.requests:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - disk.io.direction
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            - disk.io.block_size
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.physical_io.transferred:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - disk.io.direction
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            - disk.io.type
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Network I/O Metrics ===
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        oracledb.sqlnet.io.transferred:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - network.io.direction
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            - destination.type
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Buffer & Cache Metrics ===
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        oracledb.consistent_gets:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.db_block_gets:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.buffer_cache.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.library_cache.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.data_dictionary.hit_ratio:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.shared_pool.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Memory Metrics ===
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        oracledb.pga_memory:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.sga.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.sga.usage:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracledb.sga.component.name
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        # === Wait & Database Time Metrics ===
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        oracledb.database.wait.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Lock & Deadlock Metrics ===
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        oracledb.dml_locks.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.dml_locks.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.enqueue_locks.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.enqueue_locks.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.enqueue_resources.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.enqueue_resources.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.enqueue_deadlocks:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.exchange_deadlocks:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Process & Session Metrics ===
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        oracledb.processes.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.processes.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.sessions.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.sessions.usage:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - session_type
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            - session_status
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.logons:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Transaction Metrics ===
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        oracledb.transactions.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.transactions.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.user_commits:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.user_rollbacks:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Tablespace Metrics ===
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        oracledb.tablespace_size.limit:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - tablespace_name
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.tablespace_size.usage:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - tablespace_name
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Storage Metrics ===
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        oracledb.storage.usage:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.storage.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.recycle_bin.limit:
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          enabled: true
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        # === Parallel Operations Metrics ===
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        oracledb.queries_parallelized:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.ddl_statements_parallelized:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.dml_statements_parallelized:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_not_downgraded:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_downgraded_1_to_25_pct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_downgraded_25_to_50_pct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_downgraded_50_to_75_pct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_downgraded_75_to_99_pct:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.parallel_operations_downgraded_to_serial:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Redo & Sort Metrics ===
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        oracledb.redo_allocation.utilization:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        oracledb.sort.ratio:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracledb.sort.type
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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        # === Response Time Metrics ===
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        oracledb.sql_service.response.duration:
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          enabled: true
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          attributes:
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            - oracle.db.pdb
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      # Resource attributes attached to all metrics/logs (all enabled by default)
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      resource_attributes:
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        host.name:
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          enabled: true
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        oracle.db.hosting_type:
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          enabled: true
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        oracle.db.open_mode:
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          enabled: true
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        oracle.db.pdb:
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          enabled: true
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        oracle.db.role:
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          enabled: true
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        oracle.db.version:
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          enabled: true
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        oracledb.instance.name:
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          enabled: true
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        service.instance.id:
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          enabled: true
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processors:
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    batch:
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    resource/add_event_name:
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      attributes:
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        - key: host.address
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          value: YOUR_DB_HOST
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          action: upsert
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exporters:
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    otlp/newrelic:
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      endpoint: https://otlp.nr-data.net:4318
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      headers:
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        api-key: YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
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      compression: gzip
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      retry_on_failure:
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        enabled: true
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        initial_interval: 5s
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        max_interval: 30s
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        max_elapsed_time: 300s
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service:
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    pipelines:
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      metrics/oracledb:
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        receivers: [nroracledb]
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        processors: [resource/add_event_name, batch]
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        exporters: [otlp/newrelic]
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      logs/oracledb:
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        receivers: [nroracledb]
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        processors: [resource/add_event_name, batch]
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        exporters: [otlp/newrelic]

Under the Events section, enable these event types to collect their metrics:

Event	Description
`db.server.query_sample`	Per-session active query samples capturing current SQL, wait state, and blocking details.
`db.server.top_query`	Top N SQL statements by CPU or elapsed time, including execution stats and query plans.
`db.server.session.wait_sample`	Per-session cumulative wait counts and durations from `v$session_event`.

Configure the collection settings for each event type:

Configuration Section	Parameter	Value
`top_query_collection`	`max_query_sample_count`	1000
`top_query_collection`	`top_query_count`	200
`top_query_collection`	`collection_interval`	60s
`query_sample_collection`	`max_rows_per_query`	100
`session_wait_event_collection`	`max_rows_per_query`	100

Tip

For more detailed information about New Relic OTLP endpoint configuration and OpenTelemetry best practices, refer to OpenTelemetry OTLP documentation.

Update NRDOT Collector configuration

Update the NRDOT Collector configuration to use your oracle-config.yaml file:

bash

$sudo sed -i 's|OTELCOL_OPTIONS="--config=/etc/nrdot-collector/config.yaml"|OTELCOL_OPTIONS="--config=/etc/nrdot-collector/oracle-config.yaml"|' /etc/nrdot-collector/nrdot-collector.conf

Tip

You can also:

Configure multiple receivers: To monitor multiple Oracle Database instances from one collector.
Configure SQL Query Receiver: To collect custom metrics from your Oracle Database.
Link your Oracle Database with APM: To correlate your application performance with database operations. This allows you to see exactly which applications are generating specific database workloads.
Set up secret management: To securely manage sensitive information, such as database credentials. This helps to enhance the security of your monitoring setup by avoiding hardcoding sensitive data in configuration files.

Restart NRDOT Collector

After updating your configuration, restart the NRDOT Collector:

bash

$sudo systemctl restart nrdot-collector.service
$sudo systemctl status nrdot-collector.service

Tip

Always restart the NRDOT Collector after making configuration changes to ensure the new settings take effect.

Find and use your data

Once your data is being collected, you can access comprehensive Oracle Database monitoring through New Relic's UI.

To find your Oracle Database entity in New Relic:

Go to https://one.newrelic.com > All Capabilities > Databases.
Set the search criteria as instrumentation.provider = opentelemetry.
Select your Oracle Database from the list of entities.

Troubleshooting

Learn how to troubleshoot your Oracle PDB monitoring setup in New Relic.

Metrics reference

Learn about the available metrics collected by the NRDOT Collector.

RDS instrumentation

Learn how to set up your Oracle Database for RDS monitoring in New Relic.

Install & configure NRDOT Collector for on-host PDB monitoring

Preview

Guided installation

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Prerequisites

Enroll to preview

Install NRDOT Collector

For AMD64 architecture

For ARM64 architecture

Configure database user

Grant monitoring privileges for multitenant database

Configure NRDOT Collector

full configuration

Tip

Update NRDOT Collector configuration

Tip

Restart NRDOT Collector

Tip

Find and use your data

Troubleshooting

Metrics reference

RDS instrumentation

Install & configure NRDOT Collector for on-host PDB monitoring

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Guided installation

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Install NRDOT Collector

For ARM64 architecture

Configure database user

Grant monitoring privileges for multitenant database

Configure NRDOT Collector

full configuration

Tip

Update NRDOT Collector configuration

Tip

Restart NRDOT Collector

Tip

Find and use your data

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Troubleshooting

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