Monitoring metrics for alerts

2026-01-16 09:13:31  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 name
Disk
  • ta disk usage rate
  • OceanBase node data disk usage rate
Memory OceanBase node memory usage rate
CPU OceanBase node CPU usage rate
Network
  • Bytes sent per second
  • Bytes received per second
  • NTP clock offset
  • OceanBase node NIC I/O traffic ratio
I/O
  • System average load per minute
  • OPS
  • OceanBase data disk I/O usage rate
  • Read disk response time
  • Time spent on each I/O operation
  • Time spent on data disk read I/O
  • Time spent on data disk write I/O
  • OceanBase host IOPS usage rate
  • OceanBase host throughput usage rate
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 name
Service availability
  • Log backup latency
  • Data backup task timeout
  • OceanBase instance SSL certificate has expired
  • OceanBase instance SSL certificate will expire soon

Tenant-level alerts

Metrics

Metric type Metric name
Resources and performance
  • MEMStore:
    • Active memory of tenant
    • MemStore usage percentage
    • MemStore usage
  • CPU:
    • OceanBase node CPU usage rate of tenant
    • CPU usage of tenant
  • Session:
    • Current active sessions
    • Current sessions
  • I/O:
    • Read IOPS
    • Physical I/O throughput
    • IOPS
    • Write IOPS
    • Write I/O throughput
Transactions and SQL statements
  • Average commit time for transactions
  • Transactions processed per second (TPS)
  • SQL statements processed per second
  • Slow SQL statements
  • Incremental refresh latency of materialized views of tenant
Service availability
  • Time since last major compaction in OceanBase tenant
  • Major compaction errors in OceanBase tenant
Binlog service
  • Binlog conversion latency
  • Binlog subscription latency
  • Binlog subscription exceptions
  • Binlog disk usage rate
  • Binlog disk usage

Events

Event type Event name
Transactions and SQL statements
  • Slow SQL statements exist in tenant
  • SQL statements with performance degradation exist in tenant
  • SQL statements with deteriorated execution plans exist in tenant
  • Incremental refresh of materialized views of tenant failed

Metrics for the database proxy

Metrics

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

Data service

Metrics

Metric type Metric name
Data migration Incremental synchronization latency of data migration

Events

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

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