Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Metrics

You monitor the health, capacity, and performance of Oracle Managed Access by using metrics, alarms, and notifications.

This topic describes the metrics emitted by the metric namespace Managed Access.

Overview

Metrics help you monitor lockboxes, approval-templates, and access-requests.

Namespace

A namespace is a container for metrics. The namespace identifies the service sending the metrics. The namespace for Oracle Managed Access is lockbox.

Metrics

Metrics are the fundamental concept in telemetry and monitoring. Metrics define a time-series set of data points. Each metric has a namespace, metric name, compartment identifier, one or more dimensions, and a unit of measure. Each data point has a timestamp, value, and count associated with it.

Dimensions

A dimension is a key-value pair that defines the characteristics associated with the metric. For example, resourceId is the OCID of the resource that was scanned.

Statistics

Statistics are metric data aggregations over specified periods of time. Aggregations are done using the namespace, metric name, dimensions, and the data point unit of measure within the time period specified.

Alarms

Alarms are used to automate operations monitoring and performance. An alarm tracks changes that occur over a specific time period and performs one or more defined actions, based on the rules defined for the metric.

Required IAM Policy

To monitor resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you must be given the required type of access in a policy (IAM)  written by an administrator, whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool.

The policy must give you access to the monitoring services and the resources being monitored. If you try to perform an action and get a message that you don't have permission or are unauthorized, confirm with your administrator the type of access you were granted and which compartment  you are supposed to work in.

For more information on user authorizations for monitoring, see the Authentication and Authorization section for the related service: Monitoring or Notifications.

Using the Console

View the metric charts for Oracle Managed Access.

  1. In the Console, open the navigation menu and select Observability & Management. Under Monitoring, select Service Metrics.
  2. For Compartment, select the compartment that has the bastion that you're interested in.
  3. For Metric namespace, select oci_managedaccess.
  4. Select a Metric name, Interval, and Statistic.

    For example, select the metric named activeSessions and set Interval to 5 minutes.

  5. (Optional) To view the raw data points for the selected metric, select Show Data Table.

The Service Metrics page dynamically updates and displays charts for each metric that's emitted by the selected metric namespace.