OCI Cache monitoring

OCI Cache is a managed in-memory caching service that supports Redis and Valkey. A cache cluster has one primary node that handles read and write operations and can have up to four replica nodes for read-only operations. Oracle recommends three or more nodes for high availability.

Site24x7 integrates with OCI Cache to help you monitor cluster health, resource utilization, client activity, network traffic, and replication performance.

Overview

Site24x7's OCI Cache integration provides monitoring at both the cluster and node levels. When you integrate OCI Cache with Site24x7, the following monitors are available:

• Cache Cluster: Monitors cluster-level metrics, including CPU utilization, memory utilization, connected clients, keyspace activity, network traffic, replication lag, and cluster status.
• Cache Node: Monitors individual cache nodes to provide visibility into resource utilization and node-level activity.

The integration supports Cache Cluster monitors. Cache Node monitors are associated with the cluster and are added as hidden monitors.

Use case

Applications use OCI Cache to store frequently accessed data and reduce response times. As application traffic increases, the cache may experience higher CPU and memory utilization, more connected clients, or an increase in evicted keys. Site24x7 helps you monitor these metrics and configure thresholds to identify resource constraints before they affect application performance.

For replicated deployments, you can monitor replication lag and cross-region replication metrics to identify synchronization issues. Cluster status metrics also help you detect failed states and ongoing configuration or resize operations.

Benefits of OCI Cache integration

Site24x7's OCI Cache integration provides the following benefits:

• Cluster health monitoring: Track cluster status and identify failed or ongoing update operations.
• Resource utilization monitoring: Monitor CPU, memory, and connected clients to identify increasing resource demand.
• Cache activity monitoring: Track keyspace hits, keyspace misses, expired keys, and evicted keys to understand cache activity.
• Replication monitoring: Monitor replication lag, primary replica offset, cross-region replication lag, and master link status.
• Network monitoring: Track network traffic at the cluster and node levels.
• Proactive alerting: Configure thresholds for supported metrics and receive alerts when values breach defined limits.
• Centralized monitoring: View cache cluster and node performance from the Site24x7 console.

Setup and configuration

To get started with OCI Cache monitoring, complete the following setup steps:

1. Site24x7 uses cross-tenancy access to monitor OCI resources using the Site24x7 tenancy user. Create the required OCI policy to allow Site24x7 to view your resources.
2. Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > OCI > Integrate OCI Monitor.
3. On the Integrate OCI Monitor page, select Cache Cluster from the Services to be discovered list.

Permissions

Ensure that Site24x7 receives the following permissions to monitor OCI Cache clusters:

• ListRedisClusters
• GetRedisCluster
• ListRedisClusterNodes

Learn more about the policies and permissions required for OCI monitoring.

Polling frequency

Site24x7 queries OCI service level APIs according to the configured polling frequency, which can range from once a minute to once a day, to collect performance data and metadata from OCI Cache monitors.

Supported metrics

The supported metrics for OCI Cache monitors are given below. You can also view the complete list of supported OCI metrics across all monitored services.

Threshold configuration

To configure thresholds for OCI Cache monitors:

1. Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
2. Click Add Threshold Profile.
3. Select the applicable monitor type from the Monitor Type drop-down menu. The applicable monitor types are Cache Cluster and Cache Node.
4. Provide an appropriate name in the Display Name field.
5. The supported metrics are displayed in the Threshold Configuration section. You can set threshold values for the supported metrics.
6. Click Save.

Learn more about notifications and threshold profiles for OCI monitoring.

Custom metrics and status alerts

Custom metrics provide additional visibility into node count, shard count, memory capacity, and keyspace hit ratio.

Configure toggle-type thresholds for the following options to receive alerts when the corresponding state is reported:

• Notify When Cache Cluster Is in Failed Status: Enable this option to identify when the cluster enters a failed state. This can occur when provisioning fails or an unsupported action is attempted.
• Notify When Cache Cluster Is in Updating Status: Enable this option to identify when a configuration change, resize operation, or cluster update is being applied asynchronously.

Capacity planning

Capacity planning is available for Cache Cluster monitors and helps you understand how cache resources are being utilized over time. Use the CPU utilization, memory utilization, used memory, connected clients, and network traffic metrics to identify sustained increases in resource consumption. Reviewing these trends can help you identify cache clusters that are approaching their configured memory or compute limits and plan capacity changes before application performance is affected.

Capacity planning can also help you compare resource usage across monitored cache clusters and identify clusters that consistently operate at higher utilization. Combined with the evicted keys and keyspace hit ratio metrics, this gives you better visibility into whether the configured memory per node is sufficient for your workload and how your cache requirements may grow based on historical monitoring data.

You can also use metric forecasting to project future resource requirements for your cache clusters.

Monitor Groups

Monitor groups can also be used to view the overall status of related OCI Cache monitors and streamline day-to-day monitoring. You can add or remove monitors from groups as your cache environment changes.

For example, you can create separate monitor groups for production and development cache environments, or group the Cache Cluster and its associated Cache Node monitors for a particular application. This makes it easier to identify issues affecting a specific environment or application without reviewing individual monitors separately.

You can organize your OCI Cache monitors into monitor groups based on your application, environment, business unit, region, or other operational requirements. Grouping related monitors provides a consolidated view of their availability and performance from a single location. You can also use tag-based monitoring to automatically organize monitors into groups using native Oracle tags.

Licensing

• Each OCI Cache Cluster monitor utilizes one basic monitor license.
• Each OCI Cache Node monitor utilizes one basic monitor license.

Viewing OCI Cache data

To monitor your OCI Cache environment, log in to the Site24x7 console and navigate to Cloud > OCI > Cache Cluster. Select the required Cache Cluster monitor from the discovered monitors list.

Monitor data

The monitor data for each OCI Cache monitor is given below.

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