Monitoring the health of the database is an important task for a DBA. Personally I prefer to be proactive by consistently monitoring the database rather than waiting for a call from the end users, usually to tell me that the database is “slow.”
In this chapter, we will explain how a DBA can monitor his database that runs APEX applications. We have to keep in mind that monitoring a database that runs APEX is not different than monitoring any other Oracle database. We will use the basic ...