Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) helps maximize application resilience, performance, and security through issue prevention and resolution.

It’s the same technology Oracle uses in the cloud to keep the Autonomous Database running, and it’s available for you at no extra cost as part of your existing software support agreement.

Autonomous Health Framework 24.10 is released and available to download

 

New Features in 24.10

 

Detect New Causes of Database Slow Performance

AHF now automatically detects new slow database performance problems, showing a summary of the problem, cause and resolution in Insights.

Since version 24.4 AHF has had the ability to detect problems and show a summary with the resolution. The Problem Summary page is available under the Detected Problems panel in Insights.

This release adds the ability to automatically detect the following new problems:

Slow database performance caused by:

  • Generic IO error

Node evictions caused by:

  • Poorly sized UDP buffers
  • Misconfigured UP reassembly buffer parameters

To generate a diagnostic collection run:

tfactl diagcollect

Then follow the prompts to select the issue of interest.

Transfer the resulting zip to a machine with a browser, open the Insights report and view the Detected Problems.

See the user guide for more information on resolving problems AHF has detected.

 

Explore Event Context with Insights File Viewer

Clicking an event on the Insights timeline now opens the corresponding log entry within a new file viewer.

The AHF Insights timeline shows all important events relating to the database and puts them in context relative to each other. But, sometimes it is useful to be able to also browse the relevant log file.

Insights now includes a new File Viewer. Clicking any log event in the Timeline opens the corresponding file at the event location.

Insights timeline

Once opened the full contents of the log file can be browsed and easily searched.

insights file viewer

To use the Insights Timeline, open any AHF diagnostic collection and extract the contained Insights report, then click the Timeline section from the home screen.

For more information see the user guide on exploring diagnostic Insights.

 

Provide Feedback to Help Shape the Direction of AHF Insights

AHF Insights now includes an option to send feedback directly to the development team.

DBA’s, Sys Admins, Cluster Admins and Architects all use AHF Insights to help understand Oracle Database diagnostics.

Insights reports are included in all diagnostic collections on all systems and help to understand things like:

Insights reports now includes a link at the top to send direct feedback to the AHF Insights Development team.

insights feedback

 

 

 

The Development team read the responses every week and Customers can use it to help shape the future direction of AHF Insights.

 

New Best Practice Checks

24.10 includes the following new best practice checks for Orachk and Exachk:

New Orachk Checks:

  • Check for tainted kernel by non-Oracle modules and 3rd party security software installed from package

New Exachk Checks:

  • Ensure That the Status Is Under Exadata Live Update Remaining the Outstanding Work
  • Exadata Critical Issue EX89
  • Exadata Critical Issue EX90
  • Exadata Critical Issue EX91

All checks can be explored in more detail via the Health Check Catalogs:

Read more about best practice compliance checking with Exachk and Orachk.

 

Latest Third-Party Libraries

AHF has upgraded the versions of third-party software libraries.

AHF 24.10 has upgraded the following libraries to these versions:

  • Pandas: 2.2.3
  • BeautifulSoup4: 4.12.3
  • Xarray: 2024.9.0
  • Pytz: 2024.2
  • Paramiko: 3.5.0
  • Commons-io: 2.17.0
  • Lucene: 8.11.4
  • Cryptography: 43.0.1

See the user guide for more information on third party usage.

 

Recent AHF Features

Here are recent AHF releases and features:

AHF Fleet Insights 24.2

AHF Fleet Insights helps Database Fleet Admins to maximize application resilience, performance, and security through issue prevention and resolution.

  • Best practice compliance checking – Keep track of configuration fleet-wide, identify where you are out of compliance with best practice and the most critical issues you should be addressing today, along with exactly what you need to do to prevent them.
  • Pin-point problem root causes – Oversee Database diagnostics across the fleet, if an issue does occur, identify the root cause and resolve it as soon as possible.
  • Explore configuration at scale – Easily see where you have differences in configuration and understand how to bring environments back in-line with each other.
  • Analyze historical issue trends – Go beyond just monitoring current performance. Analyze historical trends and identify areas for improvement and optimization. Plan for future capacity needs and keep costs under control.

ahf fleet insights setup

AHF 24.9

AHF 24.8

AHF 24.7

AHF 24.6

AHF 24.5

AHF 24.4

AHF 24.3

AHF 24.2

AHF 24.1

AHF 23.11

AHF 23.10

 

Get started with Autonomous Health Framework today

To get started today download Oracle Autonomous Health Framework.