Oracle monitoring

Oracle monitoring without agents

Scops monitors all your Oracle databases from one place. It needs no agents on your servers and no Diagnostics Pack, and it runs on one Windows server.

What Scops watches

• Live activity: sessions, waits and top SQL, read every 5 seconds.
• Radar Engine: 75+ detectors and forecasts, such as a blocking wave or a tablespace about to fill.
• SQL plans: every plan change and every new statement.
• Metrics: each one next to its normal range.
• Size and growth: tablespaces, tables and when they fill.
• Backups and standbys: what is missing and how far each standby is behind.

What it monitors

• Oracle Database 12.2 and later, also 19c, 21c and 26ai
• Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
• RAC, pluggable databases, open standbys and Exadata

Agentless, and no Oracle packs

Scops connects through the listener with one Oracle account. It needs CREATE SESSION and SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE, and monitoring creates no objects. Session history and SQL statistics come from Scops itself, so you do not need the Diagnostics Pack or the Tuning Pack.

Questions

Do I need the Diagnostics Pack to monitor Oracle with Scops?
No. Scops collects session history and SQL statistics itself, on Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 alike. A license switch guards the one feature that uses the packs, so a pack is never used by accident.

Does Scops install anything on the database server?
No. Scops connects through the listener with one Oracle account. Monitoring creates no objects.

How much load does Scops put on a database?
Scops reads sessions every 5 seconds, metrics every minute and SQL statistics every 10 minutes. Most pages read only the repository.

Which Oracle versions does Scops monitor?
Oracle Database 12.2 and later, also 19c, 21c and 26ai, Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2.

Is there a free version?
Yes. Community is free for up to 2 databases and includes Radar Engine, alerts, reports and Scops AI.

Start

Open the live demo, or download Scops. It is free for up to 2 databases. See supported databases and system requirements.

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