Monitoring metrics for alerts

2026-03-03 02:40:32  Updated

This topic describes common monitoring metrics for alerts in OceanBase Cloud. You can create alerts based on the metrics that meet your business requirements.

Instance-level alerts

Metrics

Metric type Metric
Disk
  • OceanBase data disk usage
  • OceanBase data disk usage rate
  • OceanBase node data disk usage rate
CPU OceanBase node CPU usage rate
Memory OceanBase node memory usage rate
I/O
  • OPS
  • System average load per minute
  • Read disk response time
  • Time spent on data disk read I/O
  • OceanBase data disk I/O usage rate
  • Time spent on each I/O operation
  • Time spent on data disk write I/O
  • IOPS usage rate for OceanBase host
  • Throughput usage rate for OceanBase host
  • Bytes read per second from data disk
  • Bytes written per second to data disk
  • Bytes read per second from log disk
  • Bytes written per second to log disk
  • System CPU load per minute
Network
  • Bytes received per second
  • Bytes sent per second
  • NTP clock offset
  • OceanBase node NIC I/O traffic ratio
  • Inbound bandwidth utilization of cross-cloud network channel connection (Alibaba Cloud)
  • Outbound bandwidth utilization of cross-cloud network channel connection (Alibaba Cloud)
  • Inbound packets of cross-cloud network channel connection (Alibaba Cloud)
  • Outbound packets of cross-cloud network channel connection (Alibaba Cloud)
Service availability
  • Time since last major compaction in OceanBase instance
  • Major compaction errors in OceanBase instance
  • Major compaction timeouts in OceanBase instance

Events

Event type Event
Service availability
  • Log backup delay
  • Data backup task timeout
  • OceanBase instance SSL certificate has expired
  • OceanBase instance SSL certificate will expire soon

Tenant-level alerts

Metrics

Metric type Metric
Transactions and SQL statements
  • Average transaction commit time
  • Transactions per second (TPS)
  • SQL statements per second
  • Number of slow SQL statements
  • Incremental refresh delay for tenant materialized views
Resources and performance
  • MEMStore:
    • Active memory for tenant
    • Memstore usage percentage
    • Memstore usage
  • CPU:
    • OceanBase node tenant CPU usage rate
    • Tenant CPU usage rate
  • Session:
    • Number of active sessions
    • Total number of sessions
  • I/O:
    • Read IOPS
    • Physical I/O throughput
    • Amount of data read per second
    • Write IOPS
    • Write I/O throughput
  • SQL:
    • Time spent waiting in the queue
    • Average processing time for SQL statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for SELECT statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for INSERT statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for UPDATE statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for DELETE statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for REPLACE statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for COMMIT statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
    • Average processing time for other statements at the P99, P95, and P90 percentiles.
Binlog service
  • Binlog conversion delay
  • Binlog subscription delay
  • Number of Binlog subscription errors
  • Binlog disk usage rate
  • Binlog disk usage
Service availability
  • Time since last major compaction for tenant
  • Major compaction errors for tenant

Events

Event type Event
Transactions and SQL statements
  • Slow SQL statements exist for tenant
  • SQL statements with performance degradation exist for tenant
  • SQL statements with deteriorated execution plans exist for tenant
  • Incremental refresh for tenant materialized views fails

Database proxy metrics

Metrics

Metric type Metric
Resources and performance Session:
  • OceanBase server connections
  • Client connections
Transactions and SQL statements OBProxy SQL execution errors

Data service

Metrics

Metric type Metric
Data migration Incremental synchronization delay for data migration

Events

Event type Event
Data archiving
  • Data archiving execution timeout
  • Data archiving scheduling failure
  • Data archiving execution failure
Data cleanup
  • Data cleanup execution timeout
  • Data cleanup scheduling failure
  • Data cleanup execution failure
Data import
  • Data import execution timeout
  • Data import scheduling failure
  • Data import execution failure
Data migration Data migration task exception

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