OCI Observability

Your organization uses OCI Connector Hub to transfer logs from OCI Logging to OCI Object Storage for archiving. However, you want to limit the data being transferred to only error-level logs to optimize storage usage and ensure relevance. Which feature should you use while creating the Connector to achieve this?. Tags. Retention Policies. Log filter task. IAM Policies.

What does the Trace Explorer allow you to do in OCI Application Performance Monitoring?. Configure notifications for specific application performance thresholds. View details of specific spans. Define custom metrics for the trace data.

You are part of the Development team and required to monitor a web-based application using OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM). To collect spans and metrics, a data source agent/tracer can be used where you manually append a JavaScript statement into the index.html file of the application. Which of the following Data Source in APM is referred here?. APM Java Agent. APM Java Tracers. APM Browser Agent. Open source Tracers.

Which is a SQL-like query language tailored to request distributed tracing data in OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?. Thread snapshot. APM GeoMap. Trace Explorer query. Span.

What does OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM) use to track all related spans for a single user request?. Application name. User ID. Trace ID. Session timestamp.

You are working as a cloud administrator in OCI Log Analytics and need to identify and tag specific problem logs during ingestion to make them easier to filter and analyze later. Which feature in OCI Logging Analytics would you use to achieve this?. Log Origin. Extended Fields. Labels. Parser.

An OCI administrator wants to retrieve logs using the following search query in OCI Logging Search: search "compartmentOCID/logGroupOCID" What will this query return?. Logs from the log group of the specified compartment. Logs from all compartments and all log groups in the OCI tenancy. Logs from the specified compartment, including all log groups.

You are using OCI Events and OCI Notifications to monitor the creation of resources in an OCI environment. Specifically, you want to monitor the creation of Load Balancers and Compute Instances. Which pair of Event Types correctly match these Events?. Event Type com.oraclecloud.networking.updateloadbalancer to notify when the Load Balancer is created. Event Type com.oraclecloud.computeapi.launchinstance.begin to notify when the Instance creation is complete. Event Type com.oraclecloud.networking.createloadbalancer to notify when the Load Balancer is created. Event Type com.oraclecloud.computeapi.launchinstance.end to notify when the Instance creation is complete. Event Type com.oraclecloud.networking.updateloadbalancer to notify when the Load Balancer is created. Event Type com.oraclecloud.computeapi.launchinstance.end to notify when the Instance creation is complete. Event Type com.oraclecloud.networking.createloadbalancer to notify when the Load Balancer is created. Event Type com.oraclecloud.computeapi.launchinstance.begin to notify when the Instance creation is complete.

Which of the following are considered the foundational pillars of Observability in modern cloud environments such as OCI?. Compute, Storage, and Network. Log data, Query language, Dashboard widgets. Logs, Metrics, and Traces.

Which is NOT a valid statement regarding the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Audit logs?. Audit logs can be displayed at the Compartment level. One of the key reason to view Audit Logs is to collect security related events. Audit Logs are disabled by default and must be manually enabled for each compartment in your tenancy.

Which is the recommended method to continuously monitor and ingest logs from Object Storage buckets?. Object Storage. Object Store. Object Store Bucket. Object Collection Rule.

Which of the following step is performed to enable a metric group in OCI Application Performance Monitoring?. Specify the metrics that the filter can be used against and create a span filter. Create a span filter in the APM domain and create a metric group. Run predefined queries in the Trace Explorer and create a metric group. Create a span filter and push metric data to the OCI monitoring service.

You are setting up OCI Logging service to collect logs from custom applications running on Compute instances. What is the primary purpose of creating an Agent Configuration?. Agent configuration allows to select the hosts where you want to collect logs, specify log inputs and log destination settings. Agent Configuration is applied to allocate storage resources automatically with increasing log volumes. Agent Configuration is used to encrypt log data before it is collected from instances and stored in OCI.

Which is the correct monitoring query that will monitor the total Hosts with CPU utilization greater than a threshold including an alarm?. CpuUtilization[5m](shape = "VM.Standard.E4.Flex").max(). CpuUtilization[5m].max(). (CpuUtilization[5m].max() > 80).grouping().sum(). CpuUtilization[5m].max().grouping().sum().

How does a user start collecting a specific log for an Entity in Logging Analytics?. Enable a Parser for the Log. Identify Fields to extract. Create an Association of required Log Source with that Entity. Configure a path for the Log File.

Which of the following feature of Logging Analytics is used for identifying and tagging the problem logs during ingestion time. Labels. Log Origin. Extended Fields. Entity Type.

In OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM), where is the span context information stored during its transfer between services in a distrib. HTTP header. HTTP call. Browser and the microservices. Database Tables.

As an IT administrator, you need to set up continuous and automatic log ingestion from an OCI compute instance to OCI Logging Analytics. Which is a recommended method to achieve the requirement?. Manually upload logs on-demand to OCI Logging Analytics. Configure a Service Connector to transfer logs from OCI Logging to OCI Logging Analytics. Utilize the LogEvents API to push logs to OCI Logging Analytics. Enable the OCI Management Agent on the instance to ingest logs to OCI Logging Analytics.

You are configuring the OCI Logging service to collect logs from custom applications running on OCI Compute Instances. What is the primary purpose of creating an Agent Configuration in this setup?. Agent Configuration serves as a security measure to encrypt log data before it is collected and stored in OCI. Agent Configuration is used to allocate storage resources automatically along with log volumes. Agent configurations allow you to select the hosts where you want to collect logs, specify log inputs and log destination settings. Agent Configuration is referred to as a settings file on the hosts that defines the source log location.

You are tasked with running aggregated queries against OCI Monitoring data. However, upon executing the query, you receive the following error: "Query has exceeded the maximum number of metric streams" What step should you take to ensure the query runs successf. Check the OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy and re-run the query. Limit the number of streams by specifying dimensions. Increase the query limits and the number of streams by specifying dimensions.

You want to improve resource utilization management in your OCI environment by notifying your team each time a new compute instance is created. Which of the following OCI feature would you use to achieve this?. Set up a query in OCI Monitoring to track the CpuUtilization metric for compute instances and define a threshold alarm. Create a rule in OCI Events Service to trigger notifications when the Instance - Launch End event occurs. Configure an Autoscaling Policy on an instance pool to automatically create instances when aggregate CPU utilization exceeds a defined threshold.

In OCI Log Analytics, how can a user start collecting logs for a specific Entity?. By configuring an association between the Log Source and the Entity. By assigning the Entity to a Log Group. By assigning the Entity to a Log Group. By enabling Tracing for the Entity.

You are part of the Cloud Operations team managing thousands of compute instances running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The OCI Logging Service is configured to collect logs from these instances using a Unified Monitoring Agent. A requirement has been created to archive logging data into OCI Object Storage. Which OCI capability can help you achieve this requirement?. Logging Query. Connector Hub. IAM policy. ObjectCollectionRule.

You are managing an application in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and have configured an Alarm Definition in the OCI Monitoring service to send notifications via email when CPU utilization exceeds 80%. The alarm is set to resend notifications at specified intervals if it remains in the firing state. A team member subscribed to the Notifications Topic complains that they received the initial email notification but did not receive additional notifications while the alarm continued to remain in the firing state. What could be the reason for this issue?. Trigger Condition was not configured while defining the Alarm. OCI Monitoring service can send only one notification per Alarm Definition when the alarm condition is met. Repeat notification was not enabled while creating the Alarm. Resending notifications depends on the total metric streams returned from the query.

As an OCI administrator, you must manage logs from multiple departments such as HR, Sales, and IT Security. Each department uses different cloud resources but requires centralized logging by using the OCI Logging service. What must you do to best meet this requirement?. Set up separate log groups based on each cloud resource to be used by the departments. Configure log groups to segregate logs based on type of events (e.g., errors, access logs) that could be used by the departments. Combine all logs into a single log group to minimize management overhead and simplify the logging infrastructure. Create separate log groups for each department, and enable access controls while keeping the logs organized under the respective namespaces.

In OCI Connector Hub, which of the following is a valid source-target pair configuration?. OCI Logging (source) to OCI Object Storage (target). OCI Log Analytics (source) to OCI Logging (target). OCI Log Analytics (source) to OCI Logging (target). OCI Log Analytics (source) to OCI Logging (target).

You are reviewing logs in the OCI Logging service and need to retrieve structured details such as Log Group OCID, Compartment OCID, and other metadata. Which format does OCI Logging use to provide this structured information?. JSON. Plain Text. Plain Text. YAML.

After setting up an APM Domain in OCI Application Performance Monitoring, which of the following resource is immediately available to start ingesting application telemetry data?. Metric Definitions. Data Upload Endpoint. Data Upload Endpoint.

Which of the following is an example of a Log Source in OCI Log Analytics?. Windows Events, Syslog Listener, and Database SQL parsers. JSON, XML, CSV files. JSON, XML, CSV files. /var/log/messages.

You are a Solutions Architect for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy, and the "Ops" group has requested the ability to view and retrieve monitoring metrics. However, the access should be limited only to Block Storage metrics. Which policy statement would you define to grant this access?. Allow group Ops to read blockstore-metrics in tenancy. Allow group Ops to read metrics in tenancy where target.metrics.namespace='oci_blockstore. Allow group Ops to manage metrics in tenancy where target.metrics.monitoring='oci_blockstore'. Restricting monitoring access only to Block storage metrics is not possible.

You are a cloud administrator tasked with setting up continuous and automatic log ingestion from an OCI Compute instance into OCI Log Analytics. Which method is recommended to achieve this requirement?. Utilize the LogEvents API to push logs to OCI Log Analytics. Configure the OCI Management Agent on the Compute instance to ingest logs. Configure a Service Connector to transfer logs into OCI Log Analytics. Use OCI Events to trigger log ingestion.

Q. You are managing an application in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and have configured an Alarm Definition in the OCI Monitoring service to send notifications via email when CPU utilization exceeds 80%. The alarm is set to resend notifications at specified intervals if it remains in the firing state. A team member subscribed to the Notifications Topic complains that they received the initial email notification but did not receive additional notifications while the alarm continued to remain in the firing state. Trigger Condition was not configured while defining the Alarm. OCI Monitoring service can send only one notification per Alarm Definition when the alarm condition is met. Repeat notification was not enabled while creating the Alarm. Resending notifications depends on the total metric streams returned from the query.

As a solutions architect of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy, you have been asked to provide members of the CloudOps group the ability to view and retrieve monitoring metrics, but only for all monitoring-enabled compute instances. Which policy statement would you define to grant this access?. Allow group CloudOps to read compute-metrics in tenancy. Allow group CloudOps to read metrics in tenancy where target.metrics.monitoring='oci_computeagent'. Allow group CloudOps to read metrics in tenancy where target.metrics.namespace='oci_computeagent'. Restricting monitoring access only to compute instances metrics is not possible.

Which Event Type is available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Events service?. HTTP Request Timeout. Database SQL Query Execution. Network Packet Loss. Compute Instance State Change.

Which statement is NOT valid about creating an alarm query in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring?. You must specify an interval. You must specify a statistic. You must specify a metric. You must specify a resource group.

You are monitoring the metric "DiskIOPsWritten" for 10 compute instances using the OCI Monitoring service, and the graph currently displays data for all 10 instances. You need to filter the graph to show metrics only for instances that use the "VM.Standard.E4.Flex" shape and are running in the AD-1 availability domain. Which feature of OCI Monitoring can be used to achieve this?. Choose the grouping function to group by shape and availability domain. Choose the data table and search for instances by shape and availability domain. Choose dimensions for shape and availability domain. Choose the option "Aggregate metric streams" by shape and availability domain.

Which is NOT a valid Action Type in the OCI Events service?. Publish an event to OCI Streaming service. Execute a SQL query in an OCI Database. Invoke an OCI function. Send an email through Notifications service.

You have created an Alarm Definition in OCI Monitoring, and the current status of alarm is OK. When the alarm condition is met and the alarm is triggered, which of the following becomes a valid alarm state?. Firing. Triggered. Critical.

What is a requirement to enable Stack Monitoring in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?. Dedicated Vantage Point for network traffic analysis. API gateway for dynamic scaling. Dynamic group for discovery service.

How does Log Analytics use entities?. Store log collection information for a system. Define which logs can be collected for a system. Identify the log parsers used by a system. Save paths to the log files of a system.

What is the primary purpose of the OCI Management Agent in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?. Allows grouping of resources with centralized management. Trigger actions based on state changes in OCI resources. Analyze the cost and utilization of OCI resources. Facilitate data collection between OCI and other targets.

Which observability pillar is best suited for identifying performance bottlenecks across a distributed system by tracking request flows end-to-end?. Logs. Traces. Events. Metrics.

What is the purpose of Parsers in Log Analytics of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?. To create visualizations and dashboards for log analysis. To extract structured data from log messages for analysis. To define access controls and permissions for log data. To configure log ingestion and routing from various sources.

In OCI Log Analytics, which of the following concept represents a resource such as a Compute instance or Database, that produces log data?. Link. Parser. Entity. Entity.

What is the function of OCI Management Agent?. Monitor and analyze application performance and traces. Respond to state changes in OCI resources through event-driven automation. Analyze and optimize the cost and usage of OCI resources. Enable data collection between OCI and other targets.

What identifies the relationship between a span and a trace?. A span represents a single operation of a trace. A span tracks the start and finish time of a trace. A span and a trace are unrelated concepts. A span provides the operation name and details of a trace.

Your team has been tasked with debugging a Cloud Native application developed using the following Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services: Object Storage, Events, Functions, API Gateway, and Autonomous Database. Which of these is NOT a valid option for troubleshooting issues in OCI?. Configure a Service Connector to automatically send logs into the OCI Logging Analytics service. Configure the application to send logs into OCI Logging service. Trace performance issues in OCI Application Performance Monitoring service by enabling Function traces. Leverage OCI Cloud Guard to extract and visualize debug logs generated by your application. View service metric information from the OCI Monitoring service.

Which option best describes the purpose of Application Performance Index (APDEX) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Application Performance Monitoring?. To monitor and evaluate the performance of applications and services. To assess the security posture of applications and services. To measure the availability of applications and services. To track the usage and adoption of applications and services.

You are an OCI administrator responsible for managing logs from multiple departments in your organization. Each department utilizes different OCI resources but requires a centralized logging solution for monitoring and analysis using the OCI Logging service. Which of the following is a best practice to efficiently address this requirement?. Aggregate all logs into a single log group to minimize management overhead and simplify the logging infrastructure. Configure log groups to segregate logs based on type of events such as error logs and access logs that could be used by the departments. Use separate log groups for each department, enable access controls while keeping the logs organized under respective namespaces.

Which TWO statements are valid for a log group in OCI Log Analytics?. Log groups are used to control access at the compartment level. Log groups are logical collections of log records. Log groups are used to partition logs to improve search performance. Log groups are created automatically.

When creating Monitoring Query Language (MQL) expressions in the OCI Monitoring service, which TWO components are mandatory and cannot be omitted?. GroupBy Function. Metric. Dimension. Statistic. Grouping Function.

A security compliance team in your company needs to analyze historical OCI Audit Logs to track user activities. The team wants to understand how long OCI retains audit logs and whether retention settings can be customized at different levels. Which two statements are valid for OCI Audit Logs?. Audit logs are retained for 365 days. Audit log retention can be set for each compartment. Audit log retention period is a tenancy-level setting. OCI Audit Logs are retained indefinitely.

You are exploring a log line in OCI Logging service. Which two refer to the log format?. Provides a data section with contents of log line. Based on XML. Provides a Header and Footer storing global settings for the log. Based on JSON.

You are part of a team that manages a set of workload instances running in an on-premises environment. The Architect team is tasked with designing and configuring the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Logging service to collect logs from these instances. There is a requirement to archive the Info-level logging data of these instances into OCI Object Storage. Which two features of OCI Logging can help you achieve this?. Subscriptions. Agent Configuration. GroupBy function. Connector Hub.

Which are the TWO grouping functions available in OCI Monitoring service while using Monitoring Query Language expressions?. Group(). GroupTo(). Grouping(). GroupBy().

Which two are roles of Topics and Subscriptions in OCI Notifications?. Topics are used to create network policies for secure communication. Subscriptions specify the endpoints that receive notifications. Topics define the format of messages being sent. Subscriptions are logical groups of monitored resources in OCI Monitoring. Topics are communication channels for sending messages to subscriptions.

You are monitoring a multi-tier cloud environment using OCI Log Analytics. Due to the large volume of log data being ingested, it has become challenging to focus on the most relevant information for analysis and troubleshooting. Which TWO methods could effectively reduce noise and improve log analysis efficiency?. Create Scheduled Reports to summarize all ingested log data daily. Use specific keywords in the query. Choose a window from time range menu. Increase the log retention period to archive logs.

What are the TWO capabilities of Application Performance Index (APDEX) in OCI Application Performance Monitoring?. APDEX defines thresholds. APDEX is used in performance queries and dashboard metrics. APDEX measures user performance. APDEX measures user satisfaction with the application response time.

Which two are required to create a rule for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service?. Cloud Agent Plugin. Actions. Service Connector. Rule Conditions. Install Key.

Which TWO resources can be monitored by Stack Monitoring?. Object Storage Buckets. Virtual Cloud Networks. Oracle External Databases. WebLogic Servers.

Your team manages several workload instances in an on-premises environment. There is a requirement to archive Info-level logging data generated by these instances into OCI Object Storage for long-term retention. Which TWO features of OCI Logging can help you meet this requirement?. Grouping function. Connector Hub. IAM policy. Agent Configuration.

Which statement is true about OCI Logging versus OCI Logging Analytics?. Logging and Logging Analytics represent the same OCI service, which is used for log collection. Logging is used for storing and managing raw log data, whereas Logging Analytics provides advanced features for analyzing and interpreting log data. Logging is used for archiving logs, whereas Logging Analytics is used for deep insights through log correlation and machine learning techniques.

In which two ways does Application Performance Monitoring use the OCI Monitoring service?. Create and manage dashboards. Store and query data. Define and publish metrics. Define and manage alarms.

After setting up OCI Management Agents and successfully discovering resources in OCI Stack Monitoring, what happens next as part of the monitoring process?. Metric data is immediately collected. Predefined alarm rules are triggered automatically for performance issues. Management Agents discover resources that are running locally on the instance. Email notifications are sent through OCI Notifications for all discovered resources.

What are the TWO purposes of Log Sources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Logging Analytics?. Which Parsers to use. Which Management Agents to use. Where to store log data. Where to find logs.

Why is Distributed Tracing needed in Cloud operations?. Applications had to grow larger and more complex to respond to customer expectations. Productivity issues slowed development. In single-process architecture, it is easy to trace the request to find out what went wrong in the thread. Presentation, application, and data layers run on a single platform.

In OCI Log Analytics, which factor determines the Parsers used to process logs collected from OCI services?. Compartment. Fields. Entity Type. Log Group.

What determine Parsers to process the logs collected from OCI services in OCI Logging Analytics?. Labels. Entity Type. Fields. Lookups.

What is the role of the APM Agent in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Application Performance Monitoring?. It manages user access and authentication for the APM platform. It provides a graphical user interface for configuring monitoring-service settings. It analyzes and diagnoses application performance issues in real time. It collects and sends performance data from the application to the monitoring service.

Which OCI Observability service is used to analyze the behavior of distributed systems, including tracing requests across various components?. OCI Application Performance Monitoring. OCI Monitoring. OCI Log Analytics. OCI Events.

Which TWO are features of OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?. Real User Monitoring. Java Management. Capacity Planning. Distributed Tracing.

You are part of Cloud Operations Team and configuring Custom Logs to be ingested from multiple OCI Compute Instances into OCI Logging Service. As part of the Agent Configuration, which of the following TWO are required to collect logs from these Instances?. Configure log inputs with log path. Host groups with Dynamic Group. Select a Service Connector. Log paths are automatically identified.