Moving from Ops Insights/Database Management to OCI Monitoring and Unified Log Analytics

OCI is updating the recommended approach for observing MySQL HeatWave. This includes changes to existing integrations, along with a path forward that provides stronger log analytics and AI-assisted analysis—while continuing to use OCI Monitoring as the foundational layer for metrics and alarms.

What’s changing

OCI is retiring MySQL HeatWave monitoring/support integrations in:

  • Ops Insights
  • Database Management

Timeline

  • Deprecated: January 29, 2026
  • Available until: January 29, 2027
  • Retired: After January 29, 2027, MySQL HeatWave monitoring through Ops Insights and Database Management will no longer be available.

You can continue using these integrations during the deprecation window—this is a good time to plan and validate your next setup.

Recommended approach (OCI Monitoring + Unified Log Analytics)

For continued MySQL HeatWave monitoring:

  • OCI Monitoring (existing): use for core metrics and alarms (baseline alerting).
  • Unified Log Analytics (ULA): use for logs and advanced analysis (troubleshooting, correlation, and operational insights).

Why add Unified Log Analytics (ULA)

ULA (next generation of Log Analytics) adds capabilities such as:

  • Log + metric correlation for faster root-cause analysis
  • Prebuilt MySQL HeatWave-aligned dashboards, plus customization
  • AI-assisted analysis to identify patterns and anomalies faster

Suggested next steps (over the next year)

  1. Review your OCI Monitoring alarms
    Confirm coverage for the metrics and alerts you depend on today.
  2. Adopt ULA in parallel
    Run ULA alongside Ops Insights/Database Management to validate dashboards, queries, and workflows.
  3. Recreate key operational assets
    • Dashboards (start with ULA prebuilt, then customize)
    • Runbooks/process docs (update references to Ops Insights/DBM screens and workflows)

We’ll continue to share updates on MySQL HeatWave observability guidance related to OCI Monitoring and ULA. 

Related reading: If you’re also standardizing MySQL observability across HeatWave and on‑prem, see Hananto Wicaksono’s “Unified MySQL Monitoring Across HeatWave and On-Prem with Grafana Dashboard”. 

As always, thank you for using MySQL! 

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