Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools,...
Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools, Microsoft Viso and Draw.io to name a few, but these are only diagrams useful for discussing the architecture missing key information that would allow you to translate the design into a working solution. To address these huge shortcomings of traditional design tools we decided to build OKIT. The OCI Designer Toolkit (OKIT)...
Before building your OCI Infrastructure you will need to spend time designing and visualising your architecture. This can be done using a variety of tools, Microsoft Viso and Draw.io to name a few,...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a backend set. The OCI LB service supports 2 approaches for checking the health of the backend servers: TCP – Checks if a TCP (Layer 4) connection can be made to the backend server on a specified port. HTTP – Checks if a pre-configured URI is accessible over HTTP (Layer 7) and returns the expected result ( Status code or...
Introduction A load balancer (LB) monitors the health of the backend servers periodically to ensure that the requests are served only by healthy servers in a backend set. The OCI LB service supports 2...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with Port 5901 being one of the common offenders. I have even come across OCI Instances where VNC was active with a logged in root session waiting to be used on the VNC without a password... This article will show in easy steps how to avoid this situation and walks through the secure use of VNC via an SSH tunnel. The second...
Introduction I frequently come across the situation, where I find OCI Instances that have numerous well-known ports exposed to the public internet - VNC with Port 5901 being one of the...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step is to wrap some Python functions around the API calls and use them to get meaningful reports for a tenancy. This is what I’ll discuss here for a sample use case. For the sake of this example, let’s assume we’re interested in cost by compartment. This could easily be modified to use any other type of cost tracking tags....
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } In a previous blog post, I introduced the Oracle Cloud Metering API. The logical next step is to wrap some Python functions...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs through which all OCI services are available. After all, the Console is just as much a client to these APIs as the OCI CLI, the Python SDK or the Terraform provider. However, there is one area where the Console provides data not available via any of these other API clients: Cost Analysis. In fact, looking over the list of...
.cb11w1 ul li, .cb11w1 ol li { line-height: 1.4em; color: #404040 } Anything the OCI Console displays is the result of REST calls to one of the various APIs through which all OCI services...
Introduction In this Part-3 of the series, we will take a detailed look at the add-on services available in OCI for End-to-End Monitoring needs. In Part-1 and...
Introduction In this Part-3 of the series, we will take a detailed look at the add-on services available in OCI for End-to-End Monitoring needs. In Part-1 and Part-2, we have gone through features of out-of-the-box OCI services for monitoring and simple 2-tier architecture and a complex EBS use-case. The available add-on services at the time of writing this blog are Log Analytics, Application Performance Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring and IT Analytics. This topic is...
Introduction In this Part-3 of the series, we will take a detailed look at the add-on services available in OCI for End-to-End Monitoring needs. In Part-1 and Part-2, we have gone through features of...
Introduction In part 2 of the series we will look at a simple 2-Tier architecture and investigate how best to provide End-to-End monitoring. In part 1 we have...
Introduction In part 2 of the series we will look at a simple 2-Tier architecture and investigate how best to provide End-to-End monitoring. In part 1 we have discussed the OOTB and Add-on Services available on OCI for customers to choose for End-2-End monitoring needs. This blog post will highlight the monitoring options when working with a mix of native OCI services like LBRs or VCNs and also customer managed components like Application Servers and Databases. This topic...
Introduction In part 2 of the series we will look at a simple 2-Tier architecture and investigate how best to provide End-to-End monitoring. In part 1 we have discussed the OOTB and Add-on Services...
Introduction The End-to-End monitoring use-case aims at delivering the service levels and key performance objectives of an organizations business transactions...
Introduction The End-to-End monitoring use-case aims at delivering the service levels and key performance objectives of an organizations business transactions running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As organizations move workloads to OCI, they need the ability to determine if service levels are consistent or improved from their on-premises environment. In addition, if those OCI workloads are integrated with other deployments (on-premises or in other clouds), they need...
Introduction The End-to-End monitoring use-case aims at delivering the service levels and key performance objectives of an organizations business transactions running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...
Introduction For mission critical applications running on cloud, it becomes important to have a robust mechanism to monitor your cloud infrastructure...
Introduction For mission critical applications running on cloud, it becomes important to have a robust mechanism to monitor your cloud infrastructure (including applications and databases) and get alarmed for any failures/issues. This blog post talks specifically about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Events and Notification service to monitor and capture service events for your autonomous database and database systems. An autonomous database is a fully...
Introduction For mission critical applications running on cloud, it becomes important to have a robust mechanism to monitor your cloud infrastructure (including applications and databases) and get...
