Observability Overview
Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI ships with a fully integrated observability stack powered by SigNoz, providing metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Platform services are preconfigured for observability. Applications export telemetry after they are instrumented with OpenTelemetry or configured with supported metrics annotations.
What's Included
- Metrics — Application and infrastructure metrics collected via OpenTelemetry and Micrometer, with 20+ pre-installed dashboards
- Logs — Centralized log aggregation with filtering and search
- Traces — Distributed tracing across microservices with request correlation
- Database Monitoring — Oracle Database metrics via the built-in database exporter
- Kafka Monitoring — End-to-end visibility for Kafka clusters, producers, and consumers
Guides
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| Introduction and Overview | Architecture and how the observability stack fits together |
| Access SigNoz | Retrieve credentials and connect to the SigNoz UI |
| Metrics, Logs and Traces | Navigate metrics, logs, and traces in the SigNoz dashboard |
| Pre-installed Dashboards | Catalog of 20+ ready-to-use dashboards (Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, Oracle DB, and more) |
| Configure Applications for SigNoz | Add OpenTelemetry and Micrometer dependencies to your application |
| Kafka Observability | Monitor Kafka clusters, producers, and consumers |
| Customize Java Instrumentation | Pass custom environment variables to the OpenTelemetry Java agent through Helm values or CLI overrides |
| Oracle Database Metrics Exporter | Database-level metrics collection and configuration guidance |
| Common Customizations | Configure Online and Cold Storage |
| Replace SigNoZ during upgrade | Replace SigNoZ during an optional OBaaS 2.1.1 upgrade; existing observability data is permanently deleted |