Do you need to monitor an application that was built on OCI or moved to OCI?  This Observability Insights session is for you:

Five Easy Steps to Reclaim cControl of E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Monitoring Running in OCI with Stack Monitoring, July 29, 2025 at 9 am PT. Register today.

We will learn the steps to regain control of monitoring everything: E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft application, a fleet of hosts, and everything in-between. 

See how to use the built-in troubleshooting UI to seamlessly monitor from the macro to micro level and identify if the current performance is expected with Anomaly detection. Standardize your PeopleSoft or EBS alarm set up by starting with an Oracle-certified Monitoring Template then customize it to include additional metrics or add Metric Extensions to meet your unique needs. When an incident occurs or maintenance is required, leverage the topology-aware Maintenance Windows to simplify the suppression of alarms.

Here are the five easy steps to reclaim control of monitoring your E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Stack Monitoring:

  1. Complete your Application Topology: Begin by ensuring you have a comprehensive understanding of your application’s topology in OCI. This includes identifying all the components, such as databases, middleware, and application servers, and how they are interconnected. Use the OCI console to visualize and map out your application’s architecture.
  2. Import OCI Services: Import the relevant OCI services associated with your E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft application into your monitoring system. This could include services like OCI Compute, OCI Database, OCI Load Balancer, and more. By importing these services, you can gather performance metrics and monitor the health of your application’s infrastructure.
  3. Create Process-Based Resources: Define process-based resources to monitor specific application components. For example, you can create resources for your PeopleSoft application servers, batch processes, or E-Business Suite services. This allows you to track the performance and availability of individual processes within your application stack.
  4. Monitor from Macro to Micro: Utilize the Enterprise Summary and Stack View features provided by Stack Monitoring. The Enterprise Summary gives you a high-level overview of your application’s performance, allowing you to quickly identify any issues. Then, you can drill down into the Stack View to examine the performance of individual components and their relationships. This macro-to-micro monitoring approach helps you pinpoint problems efficiently.
  5. Anomaly Detection and Alarm Management:
    • Anomaly Detection: Enable anomaly detection to automatically identify unusual behavior or performance deviations in your application. This helps you proactively detect issues and ensure your application is running as expected.
    • Managing Alarms with Monitoring Templates: Oracle provides certified monitoring templates specifically designed for E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications. Clone these templates and customize them to your specific requirements. Monitoring templates define the metrics and thresholds for generating alarms. By using these templates, you can ensure that you are monitoring the right parameters and receiving alerts when necessary. Additionally, you can extend the monitoring by adding custom metrics through Metric Extensions to cater to unique monitoring needs.
EBS Home page
Figure 1:  EBS Home page

Learning Objectives:

  1. Holistic Application Monitoring: By completing the application topology and following these steps, you will achieve comprehensive monitoring of your entire E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft application, ensuring no component is left unmonitored.
  2. Out-of-the-Box Troubleshooting UI: Leverage the built-in troubleshooting UI provided by Stack Monitoring to easily navigate between different levels of monitoring granularity. This UI enables you to quickly identify issues at the macro (application-wide) level and then drill down to the micro (individual component) level for detailed analysis.
  3. Alarm Control and Maintenance: With Oracle-certified Monitoring Templates, you can standardize and streamline alarm management. These templates provide a solid foundation for monitoring your applications. Additionally, topology-aware Maintenance Windows allow you to suppress alarms during planned maintenance or incidents, ensuring you receive only relevant alerts and minimizing noise.

By following these steps and utilizing the features of Stack Monitoring, you can effectively reclaim control of monitoring your E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications running in OCI, ensuring optimal performance, quick issue identification, and efficient alarm management.  Register here.

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