An important feature of any computer system is its ability to report and provide statistics on its availability and performance. GoldenGate offers a number of options to monitor status, latency, and throughput using its command-line interface.
To monitor errors and warnings, we can look beyond the GGSCI tool and in the log files, which we will discuss in the following sections.
It is important to note that errors detected by GoldenGate are not automatically alerted to network managers, sms gateways, or e-mail servers. Therefore, the GoldenGate administrator must proactively monitor the logs generated by GoldenGate, the OS, and the database.
This includes the following log file list (Linux):