Configuring Monitoring & Automation for OBIEE

⚙️ Configure Monitoring for OBIEE

Configure GermainUX monitoring for OBIEE to tailor user-experience monitoring, server monitoring, JVM visibility, Java profiling, logs, analytics, privacy, alerts, automation, dashboards, and reports.

🏷️ Configure the Application

Configure the OBIEE application so collected telemetry is associated with the correct environment.

Use consistent application naming across:

• Production

• Staging

• Development

• Business units

• OBIEE environments

Consistent application identification is particularly important when correlating user, browser, JVM, log, and server telemetry.

👥 Configure Real User Monitoring

Configure Real User Monitoring for the OBIEE application where actual user experience needs to be captured.

Review the UX Monitoring Profile associated with OBIEE and configure the browser telemetry required for the application.

Depending on the monitoring requirements, this can include:

• User sessions

• User actions

• Navigation

• Application performance

• Browser errors

• User-experience telemetry

Collect only the information required for the monitoring use case.

🎥 Configure Session Monitoring

Configure how OBIEE user sessions are captured and analyzed.

Session-level monitoring can help identify:

• Sequence of user actions

• Navigation behavior

• Slow interactions

• Errors affecting a session

• Technical conditions occurring during the session

Use session context to connect affected users with application and infrastructure telemetry.

🌐 Configure Web Server Monitoring

Configure monitoring for the web server supporting OBIEE.

Monitor the technical conditions required by your environment, including:

• Availability

• Response time

• Performance

Define thresholds according to the expected behavior of the OBIEE web tier.

☕ Configure JVM Monitoring

Configure JVM monitoring for the Java runtime supporting OBIEE.

Depending on the required scope, monitor:

• CPU

• Memory

• Memory allocation

• Garbage collection

• Threads

• JVM performance

Configure monitoring frequencies and thresholds appropriate for the OBIEE environment.

🔬 Configure Java Code Profiling

Enable Java code profiling when execution-level troubleshooting is required.

Use profiling to analyze:

• Function execution time

• CPU consumption

• Memory allocation

• Thread usage

Because profiling provides deeper technical visibility, enable the level of profiling appropriate for the troubleshooting or performance-analysis requirement.

📋 Configure Log Monitoring

Configure the OBIEE logs GermainUX should monitor.

Identify logs containing operational information such as:

• Errors

• Warnings

• Exceptions

• Application conditions

Configure parsing and categorization according to the log format and monitoring requirements.

Avoid collecting unnecessary sensitive information from log content.

🖥️ Configure Server Monitoring

Configure monitoring for the server infrastructure supporting OBIEE.

Select the infrastructure telemetry relevant to determining the health and performance of the environment.

Server telemetry should be correlated with OBIEE application and JVM behavior where appropriate.

🤖 Configure Synthetic Monitoring

Where synthetic monitoring is deployed, configure representative OBIEE user journeys.

Focus on critical workflows that provide meaningful validation of application availability and usability.

Synthetic transactions can complement Real User Monitoring by validating important application journeys proactively.

📈 Configure KPIs

Configure KPIs for the OBIEE conditions important to your environment.

Examples include:

• OBIEE Availability

• OBIEE Response Time

• Web Server Availability

• Web Server Response Time

• JVM CPU

• JVM Memory

• Garbage Collection

• Java Execution Time

• Error Count

• User Experience Performance

Create custom KPIs where the default monitoring does not represent the operational condition you need to measure.

📏 Configure SLAs

Define SLA conditions for OBIEE KPIs requiring threshold-based monitoring.

For example:

OBIEE Availability < Expected Level

Response Time > Threshold

JVM Memory > Threshold

Java Execution Time > Threshold

Critical Errors > 0

Configure thresholds according to the expected behavior of the environment.

🗂️ Configure Categorization

Configure categorization to group OBIEE telemetry into meaningful operational categories.

Categorization can be used for:

• Errors

• Warnings

• Exceptions

• User activities

• Performance conditions

• Application components

This simplifies analytics, dashboards, reports, and alerting.

🔗 Configure Correlation

Configure correlation across the OBIEE technology stack.

For example:

User → Browser → OBIEE → Web Server → JVM

or:

User Session → Application Error → OBIEE Log

or:

Slow User Action → Java Execution → JVM Condition

Correlation helps teams move from user impact to the technical conditions occurring within the same application flow.

🔐 Configure Data Privacy

Review telemetry captured from the OBIEE application and supporting components.

Configure masking, anonymization, or exclusion where required for:

• User names

• Session identifiers

• Authentication information

• URLs

• Parameters

• Business data

• Report content

• Log content

• Other sensitive information

Apply privacy rules before collecting sensitive production data.

🔔 Configure Alerts

Configure alerts for conditions requiring operational attention.

Examples include:

• OBIEE unavailable

• Web server unavailable

• Response time exceeds threshold

• JVM resource threshold exceeded

• Critical error detected

• Java execution exceeds threshold

• Synthetic transaction fails

Configure appropriate:

• Conditions

• Thresholds

• Time windows

• Recipients

• Escalation

⚙️ Configure Automation

Configure GermainUX automation for OBIEE conditions where an operational response is appropriate.

For example:

OBIEE Condition → KPI → SLA → Alert / Action

Automation can include:

• Notifications

• Reports

• Scripts

• HTTP actions

• Incident workflows

• Remediation actions where appropriate

📊 Configure Dashboards

Create dashboards combining the OBIEE telemetry relevant to each audience.

Examples include:

• User experience

• User activity

• Application availability

• Web-server performance

• JVM performance

• Java execution

• Errors and exceptions

• Server health

• SLA status

For technical troubleshooting, combine user and backend telemetry within the same operational view.

📄 Configure Automated Reports

Configure automated reports for OBIEE operational and performance monitoring.

Reports can summarize:

• Availability

• User activity

• User experience

• Application performance

• JVM performance

• Errors

• SLA violations

• Historical trends

Configure schedules and recipients according to the intended audience.

🧪 Validate the Configuration

Execute representative OBIEE activity and verify the monitoring capabilities enabled for your environment.

Depending on configuration, verify:

• User sessions

• User actions

• Application performance

• Web-server telemetry

• JVM telemetry

• Java profiling

• Logs

• Server telemetry

• Synthetic transactions

• KPIs

• SLAs

• Categorization

• Correlation

• Privacy rules

• Alerts

• Automation

• Dashboards

• Reports

Also verify that the configured monitoring introduces acceptable overhead for the OBIEE environment.

ℹ️ Advanced Configuration

OBIEE monitoring can be extended using the underlying GermainUX monitoring capabilities for:

• Real User Monitoring

• Java / JVM monitoring

• Java code profiling

• Server monitoring

• Log monitoring

• Synthetic monitoring

Use the corresponding technical configuration documentation when deeper component-level configuration is required.

ℹ️ Get More Information

OBIEE environments can vary significantly depending on storefront customization, extensions, integrations, infrastructure, and security requirements.

The GermainUX team can help configure the appropriate monitoring scope, privacy controls, analytics, alerts, and automation for your OBIEE environment.

Please contact us for any help.