Highlights Tab

Use the Highlights tab as an effective insight into your historical instance activity. The window features an intelligent rule-based engine that automatically identifies:

• Performance anomalies

• Resource bottlenecks

• Peak Activities

The Highlights feature performs a primary intelligent interpretation of your instance performance, saving the DBA precious time as the performance analysis is completed automatically. In addition to the performance findings, hot-links are provided to grant you one-click access to the issues requiring further attention.

The Highlights tab is available only for the historical instance view.

Performance Highlights

Performance Highlights displays instance level anomalies as measured in exceptional and significant metric values.  For example, CPU and memory usage.

The textual row listings entries consist of:

• Performance metrics listings

• Explanations of the egregious behavior

• Hyper-links to the relevant time period

• (Quantitative metric values)

Additional information is available by clicking .

Right-click a specific rule implementation to display the  Performance Highlights tab for configuration, with the focus on that rule.

Activity Highlights

Use the Activity Highlights pane listing to identify situations in which an individual or small activity subset (characterized by dimension values) is the primary source of an activity (resource) workload, likely to be exceptional and significant behavior.

Clicking on the dimension hyper-link will navigate you to the consuming activity.

Configure the rule engine in the Activity Highlights tab.