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House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.

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Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In part 1 of this blog we covered real time, baseline, and health check tools for troubleshooting middleware performance issues.
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I first started working with Oracle as Unix/Network administrator. Our DBA left for another job and I inherited the database
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect Most DBAs will agree that good performance monitoring and troubleshooting should include OS metrics – in addition to traditional tools