# Oracle Extension version 3.6.2 - uptime metric

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064>\
**Category:** Extensions\
**Tags:** oracle, extensions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064 "2025-08-21T15:15:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![mn\_24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mn\_24](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mn_24)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064/1 "2025-08-21T15:15:29Z")

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Hi,

what does this mean - please clarify, in terms of WHAT IF we don’t want to rely on this “uptime” but on the “status” metric - are we going to loose something?:

 ![mn_24_0-1755789126866.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/4/f/4f99991bf5ee608bc4d4fec57208834635bcd12f.png)

[@TomásSeroteRoos](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/55565)

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**Author:** ![AntonPineiro](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antonpineiro/32/49_2.png) [@AntonPineiro](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonPineiro)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064/2 "2025-08-21T21:42:18Z")

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Hi,

Both metrics are available. But I have already switched metric events to new uptime metric. That would be my suggestion.

Best regards

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**Author:** ![mn\_24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mn\_24](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/mn_24)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064/3 "2025-08-22T13:44:44Z")

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Hi,

it is a good step ahead however I would not rely on UPTIME for alerting as I don’t want to be notified that the DB is UP(in the best case-scenario without human intervention) since less than 60sec which should mean that it was down but for how long … It is quite good for the dashboards from my point of view. That is why I just wanted to understand on what we are relying here.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_sSeroteRoos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@Tom\_sSeroteRoos](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Tom_sSeroteRoos)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/oracle-extension-version-3-6-2-uptime-metric/53064/4 "2025-09-08T12:09:02Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@mn\_24](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/77323),

As&nbsp;[@AntonPineiro](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/58682)&nbsp;mentioned above, both metrics are still available and we didn’t change the way the status metric is collected. We merely updated the existing alert template (which is meant to give users examples on useful Oracle DB alerts) to use the uptime metric. This was done to align with our other DB extensions.

You can feel free to keep using the status metric in your alerts if you prefer&nbsp;🙂 In the end, I don’t think it really makes a huge difference.