topic Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata? in Extensions

Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

sujit_k_singh — Sun, 12 May 2024 11:30:18 GMT

Hi,

Do we have any extension to monitor Oracle Exadata?

Thanks,

Tijist

Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

Mike_L — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:45:18 GMT

Not yet, but keep an eye on the hub for the next couple of months.

Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

Krzysztof_Ziemi — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:50:24 GMT

Oracle Exadata extension is publicly available now: https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/oracle-exadata/?query=Exadata&filter=all#overview

Please share your experiences with it through the feedback channel on Community: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Feedback-channel/Feedback-channel-for-the-Oracle-Exadata-extension/td-p/251760

Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

kohtsuka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:18:56 GMT

I would like to better understand how the data collected through the Exadata Extension impacts Topology (Smartscape) and Davis AI.

Since the data gathered by this extension is exposed as Prometheus-based custom metrics, am I correct in understanding that it does not contribute to Smartscape topology discovery and is generally excluded from Davis Causal AI root cause analysis?

In other words, would the SQL execution analysis obtained through OneAgent traces on the application servers and the metric data collected by this Exadata Extension be treated as separate data sets, rather than being correlated together within Dynatrace?

Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

Krzysztof_Ziemi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:50:26 GMT

Hello.

Indeed Exadata exposes metrics via prometheus and the extension scrapes them. These are the infrastructure-level metrics. After all, Exadata is an infrastructure layer and metrics for Exadata as the infrastructure-layer metrics. Rich, complex and Exadata-specific, but still it’s the infrastructure layer

Oracle database runs on this infrastructure - so one layer above - and Oracle database monitoring would expose the database engine/structure/query execution-level metrics. This logical layer is monitored by the Oracle database extension.

App server is one more layer above - query executions reported by OneAgent on app server are executed against the database seen by the app server. In order for Davis AI to walk this topology, it has to have ways of connecting layer-to-layer dependencies on specific entity level. Of we speak about query-level diagnostics, unique query identifier would have to be known all across the path.

The former - horizontal and vertical entity-level dependencies - is what the Smartscape has been designed for. The latter - query execution tracing across the supporting apps, systems, infrastructure - is only possible where some trace IDs exist. Oracle does not yet provide tracing of queries across its databases and underlying Exadata infrastructure. Maybe some day. It’s a question to Oracle. Dynatrace is ready to import and analyze OpenTelemetry signals from any source.

Going back to the former - horizontal and vertical entity-level dependencies - short answer is that in the Smartscape classic there are limited ways of tracing such topology end to end. So - these will be separate data sets, indeed. That’s the reason why we are moving to the Smartscape on Grail - it opens the ways to stitch topological representations of distinct technologies through deterministic connections between their edges. We have just started this route, all extensions are getting Smartscape on Grali support now; Exadata extension with Smartscape on Grail support will be available in upcoming few weeks as well.

Please note though that it doesn’t automatically mean the entire topology will be stitched together across all monitored technologies and ecosystems. Smartscape on Grail opens this possibility, but there is still work to do on both our, partners, integrators and customers side to use these possibilities in practice. But the topologies will exist on the same level - available via the DQL Smartscape queries - ready to stitch them, so Davis will be able to walk across them.

Re: Extension to monitor OracleExadata?

kohtsuka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:03:12 GMT

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. Your description, including the screenshots, helped me understand the concept very clearly.

I appreciate the time you took to provide such a thorough response. I look forward to seeing the upcoming releases and enhancements.