GoMon4Exa

GoMon4Exa - Comprehensive Monitoring of Oracle Exadata

Is your organization fully leveraging the power of Oracle Exadata?

If you face challenges such as:

  • Lack of full visibility into Exadata performance and its components
  • Difficulties diagnosing bottlenecks or interference between databases and clusters
  • Limitations of traditional monitoring tools that can’t keep up with Exadata’s complexity
  • Need for flexible customization of metrics and dashboards
  • High maintenance costs and limited scalability of existing solutions 

It's a clear sign you need a purpose-built tool for your Exadata platform.

GoMon4Exa is designed for organizations that require a comprehensive, independent, and flexible monitoring solution — covering everything from infrastructure to the database layer. 

GoMon4Exa is Goldenore’s proprietary monitoring solution, purpose-built for Oracle Exadata environments.It combines Goldenore’s extensive experience in implementing this platform with the need to provide complete visibility and control over its key components — databases, hardware resources, and system workload. Designed with performance, scalability, and flexibility in mind, GoMon4Exa overcomes the limitations of traditional monitoring tools. It delivers deep insight into Exadata operations, simplifies trend analysis, and enables proactive issue detection before they affect system performance. GoMon4Exa addresses the needs of organizations seeking a comprehensive, independent, and open solution for managing the entire Oracle Exadata platform.

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Key Business and Technical Benefits

  • Visibility – Insight into all layers of the Exadata platform, including database consolidation and multi-tier architecture.
  • Proactive Problem Resolution – Rapid identification of performance bottlenecks and analysis of workload interference across databases and clusters.
  • Flexibility and Extensibility – Fully customizable dashboards, metrics, and integrations, including user-defined SQL metrics and panels.
  • Openness and Independence – No vendor lock-in thanks to the use of open-source technologies.
  • High Return on Investment (ROI) – Reduced costs associated with commercial monitoring tools and additional licenses.
  • Scalability – Easy adaptation to evolving environments and changing organizational needs.
  • Dedicated Exadata Metrics – Precise monitoring of the key components of the Exadata platform.

Key Features

  • Agentless Monitoring – Collect and visualize hundreds of metrics without installing additional software on Exadata servers.
  • Comprehensive Metric Coverage – Access performance data from all key Exadata components:
    • Storage Servers – CPU, memory, physical and NVMe disks, temperature.
    • Exadata FlashCache – Flash usage, per-database disk metrics, read efficiency, rejected write metrics.
    • I/O Resource Manager (IORM) – I/O latency and queues per database.
    • Offload Mechanisms – Smart Scan, Storage Index, workload distribution across databases.
    • Compute Servers – Network throughput (InfiniBand), CPU, temperature, and more.
    • Database and ASM Metrics – Performance monitoring without Diagnostics Pack; includes ASM and standby database metrics.
  • Custom Metric Collection – Create your own metrics using SQL queries or data from storage (cellcli), compute (dbmcli), databases, and ASM. Users can extend monitoring to other environments integrated with Prometheus.
  • Alerting System – Email, SNMP, or webhook notifications for any metric or composite KPI using Prometheus Alertmanager.
  • Workload Interference Analysis – Diagnose and resolve issues caused by workload contention across shared platform resources.
  • Flexible Visualization – No limits on dashboard or visualization parameters. Unlike standard tools, users can design fully custom panels and dashboards.

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Architecture

Architecture

  • Agentless Design – No need to install additional software on Exadata servers.
  • Open Technologies – Built on Prometheus and Grafana to ensure scalability, flexibility, and vendor independence.
  • Flexible Framework – Easily integrates with any environment or application supporting Prometheus exporters, OpenTelemetry (OTel), and APIs.
  • Dedicated Exadata Connectors – Enable the collection of Exadata-specific metrics for deep platform insight.
  • Deployment Model – Available as a complete solution (dedicated environment with Prometheus, exporters, and Grafana) or as a module extending the client’s existing monitoring setup based on the same technology stack.

Integration capabilities

  • Extensive integration capabilities – easy connection with systems compatible with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Integration with other systems is possible through connectors or scripts.
  • Openness and independence – no vendor lock-in thanks to an open-source architecture.
  • Interoperability – ability to export data and metrics to other observability systems, creating a unified monitoring environment.

Integration capabilities

Use cases:

1.Performance optimization and tuning

Uncover bottlenecks instantly and keep Exadatarunning at peak performance.

2. Capacity planning and forecasting

Predict growth and plan resources beforeutilization becomes a problem.

3. Troubleshooting workload interference

Identify workload interactions across databases and ensure balanced, efficient performance.

4.Proactive alerting and incident prevention

Detect anomalies early and prevent unplanned downtime with smart alerts.

5. SLA tracking and service quality assurance

Monitor key performance indicators to uphold and verify service-levelcommitments.

6. Cost and license optimization

Gain full-stack visibility without extra agents or licenses — reduce cost, not insight.

Backed by Goldenore Expertise

With over a decade of Exadata implementations across industries, Goldenore knows the platform inside and out. GoMon4Exa is a direct response to client needs and real-world challenges — purpose-built where generic tools fall short.
Ready to take control of your Exadata monitoring?Contact Goldenore today to request a demo or consultation.

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See the demo — discover the capabilities of GoMon4Exa

Dive into a world of complete control and transparency! Log in to the demo version and see how GoMon4Exa simplifies day-to-day Exadata monitoring by presenting data through intuitive and interactive dashboards. See for yourself how our solution enables you to track key performance and health indicators, analyze server and database workloads, monitor Flash Cache usage and detailed I/O metrics, filter data by platform, cluster, or PDB, and combine insights from different layers of the environment in one place.

Test GoMon4Exa today and discover how to gain a full view of Exadata performance — from infrastructure to database.

Exadata Systems on a single dashboard

General overview of single or multiple Exadata Systems on a single dashboard

A high-level view of key metrics and the overall status of Oracle Exadata components, including current and historical CPU load, network and disk activity, Smart Scan offload operations, and top databases by storage workload. Each section includes a context menu for quick access to detailed drill-down charts.

Exadata Storage Server

Flash Cache behavior on Exadata Storage Server

Shows how effectively reads use the high-speed NVMe Flash Cache (hit/miss), how quickly data is added or flushed, and how cache space is utilized over time by individual databases.

I/O Resource Manager

I/O Resource Manager statistics

Displays how each database contributes to HDD and Flash usage and the latency it experiences before and after IORM policies are applied. The view can be broken down by pluggable databases or consumer groups and shows data per storage server, with server selection available via the top menu.

monitored databases

Data from directly monitored databases

The system uses Exadata Management Servers (MS) for aggregated storage metrics and enhances them with direct database monitoring. This lets us break down key indicators by individual databases — for example, temporary tablespace reads, which can heavily impact HDD performance and slow analytical workloads.

Detection of unbalanced workloads

Detection of unbalanced workloads

We identify imbalanced workloads and slow-responding drives by calculating Z-scores for key metrics. This quickly highlights cases where a single drive becomes a bottleneck and impacts overall system performance.

statistics from multiple sources

Combining and comparing statistics from multiple sources

By comparing OS load with CPU usage reported by databases, we can spot gaps that may indicate unwanted processes consuming resources. Grafana’s built-in tools let you highlight and correlate time ranges across dashboards, making issue analysis faster and more precise.

Accounting for resource usage

Accounting for resource usage — based on ASH

We use lightweight V$ views for direct monitoring without requiring the Diagnostics Pack, and can add custom SQL metrics—including ASH queries when needed. This lets us aggregate resource usage (e.g., CPU) by users, modules, or services. We can also collect this data from read-only Standby databases and retain it longer than the database itself.

More dashboards available

More dashboards available

A wide range of ready-made dashboards is available, tagged and organized into folders for easy navigation—for example, “Exadata Storage” for storage metrics and “Exadata Hosts & Databases” for compute servers and their databases.

Benefits of using open-source components

Benefits of using open-source components

GoMon is built on Prometheus and Grafana—open, flexible technologies widely used in modern monitoring. Administrators can access all collected metrics (around 700 from Exadata servers and 250 from databases), build custom dashboards, and add new SQL-based metrics when needed. GoMon4Exa also integrates easily with other Prometheus-compatible systems, allowing metric exchange in both directions.

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