There are three areas of monitoring that an Oracle SOA Suite 12c administrator typically focuses on. They are as follows:
Transactions
Instance state and performance
Infrastructure
This chapter covers these three areas in detail, providing a comprehensive handle on all aspects of environment monitoring in general. The ultimate goal as an administrator is to ensure that the infrastructure executes transactions reliably and efficiently.
Transactional monitoring involves the following:
Reviewing faulted instances to take action (retry, replay, or ignore).
Searching log files for additional log information on faulted instances.
Searching through composite sensors if the end user complains of a particular business transaction not going through (if composite sensors are implemented in the code).
Enabling selective tracing, which allows you to change the trace level for a defined scope. Examples of a scope are a particular logged-in user, deployed application,...