Does this tool connect to my OCI account?

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser and generates configuration JSON that you can copy and paste into your infrastructure-as-code templates, CLI commands, or cloud console. It never connects to any cloud account or sends data externally.

Are the generated configurations production-ready?

The tool produces syntactically valid configurations based on current OCI service specifications. Always review generated configs against your organization security policies and test in a non-production environment before deploying.

OCI Stack Monitoring Config Builder

MonitoringOCI

Build Stack Monitoring resource discovery configurations for databases, WebLogic, and hosts.

Last verified: May 2026

OCI Stack Monitoring Configuration

Build Stack Monitoring resource discovery configurations for databases, WebLogic, and host monitoring with metric extensions.

Required Fields

compartmentIddisplayNamediscoveryDetails.agentIddiscoveryDetails.resourceTypemonitoredResources

{
  "compartmentId": "ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaexample",
  "displayName": "prod-stack-monitoring-discovery",
  "description": "Stack Monitoring resource discovery for production application stack",
  "discoveryDetails": {
    "agentId": "ocid1.managementagent.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample",
    "resourceType": "ORACLE_DATABASE",
    "resourceName": "prod-orcl-db",
    "properties": {
      "host": "db-host.subnet.vcn.oraclevcn.com",
      "port": 1521,
      "protocol": "TCP",
      "serviceName": "ORCLPDB1"
    },
    "credentials": {
      "credentialType": "SSO",
      "source": "ocid1.vaultsecret.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample"
    }
  },
  "monitoredResources": [
    {
      "name": "prod-orcl-db",
      "type": "ORACLE_DATABASE",
      "hostName": "db-host.subnet.vcn.oraclevcn.com",
      "managementAgentId": "ocid1.managementagent.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample",
      "properties": [
        { "name": "oracle_home", "value": "/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0" },
        { "name": "sid", "value": "ORCL" }
      ],
      "aliases": {
        "source": "OCI.StackMonitoring",
        "name": "prod-oracle-db-primary"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "prod-weblogic-domain",
      "type": "WEBLOGIC_DOMAIN",
      "hostName": "wls-admin.subnet.vcn.oraclevcn.com",
      "managementAgentId": "ocid1.managementagent.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample",
      "properties": [
        { "name": "admin_server_host", "value": "wls-admin.subnet.vcn.oraclevcn.com" },
        { "name": "admin_server_port", "value": "7001" },
        { "name": "domain_name", "value": "prod_domain" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "prod-host",
      "type": "HOST",
      "hostName": "db-host.subnet.vcn.oraclevcn.com",
      "managementAgentId": "ocid1.managementagent.oc1.iad.aaaaaaaexample"
    }
  ],
  "metricExtensions": [
    {
      "name": "custom_tablespace_usage",
      "resourceType": "ORACLE_DATABASE",
      "collectionMethod": "SQL",
      "queryProperties": {
        "sqlQuery": "SELECT tablespace_name, ROUND(used_percent, 2) as used_pct FROM dba_tablespace_usage_metrics",
        "collectionIntervalMinutes": 15
      }
    }
  ],
  "baselineConfig": {
    "isAutoBaselineEnabled": true,
    "trainingPeriodDays": 30,
    "sensitivity": "MEDIUM"
  },
  "freeformTags": {
    "monitoring": "stack-monitoring",
    "team": "app-ops"
  }
}

Generated Output

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About This Tool

Build Stack Monitoring resource discovery configurations for databases, WebLogic, and hosts. This tool helps OCI engineers generate valid configurations quickly without consulting documentation, reducing errors and accelerating infrastructure deployment. All processing runs in your browser with no data sent to external servers.

Real-World Scenario

Your Oracle WebLogic + Database stack has been a black box — you can monitor each component individually but lack a unified view. The builder generates a Stack Monitoring config: discovery profile detects WebLogic Server domains, managed servers, deployed applications, and the underlying Oracle Database. Hierarchy and dependencies surface automatically. When the database is slow, you can see which WebLogic apps are affected. When an app server is overloaded, you can see which databases its requests are hitting. End-to-end visibility for the Oracle stack without instrumenting each component manually.

When to Use This Tool

•Generating oci stack monitoring configurations for new infrastructure deployments.
•Validating existing configurations against best practices before applying changes.
•Learning OCI service configuration patterns through interactive examples.
•Accelerating infrastructure-as-code development by producing correct JSON/YAML starting points.

Pro Tips

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Stack Monitoring auto-discovers stack components — for WebLogic, Oracle Database, Exadata, and Apache servers it understands the hierarchy (host → instance → app server → application). This means you don't manually catalog every component; discovery scans the host and identifies what's running.

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Combine Stack Monitoring with Operations Insights for end-to-end visibility: Stack Monitoring shows real-time health/metrics, Ops Insights provides capacity forecasting. Both feed into Cloud Monitoring alarms for unified alerting.

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Custom metrics from your applications can be ingested via Management Agent's metrics-collector plugin. Define the metrics in your app code (Prometheus-compatible exposition), the plugin scrapes them, and they appear in OCI Monitoring with the same querying/alerting capabilities as built-in metrics.

How It Works Under the Hood

The builder constructs OCI Stack Monitoring configurations: discovery profiles (which resource types to discover: WebLogic / Oracle DB / Apache / Tomcat / etc.), monitored resource registration (parent-child relationships between hosts, application servers, applications), Management Agent plugin enablement, and dashboard configuration. Output is generated as oci stack-monitoring commands and Terraform oci_stack_monitoring_monitored_resource resources.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this tool connect to my OCI account?: No. This tool runs entirely in your browser and generates configuration JSON that you can copy and paste into your infrastructure-as-code templates, CLI commands, or cloud console. It never connects to any cloud account or sends data externally.
Are the generated configurations production-ready?: The tool produces syntactically valid configurations based on current OCI service specifications. Always review generated configs against your organization security policies and test in a non-production environment before deploying.

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