What Is DBA Assistant?

DBA Assistant provides visualized database O&M and intelligent diagnosis for developers and database administrators (DBAs), making database O&M easy and efficient.

Functions

Table 1 lists the functions supported by DBA Assistant.

Table 1 Function description

Function

Description

Reference

Dashboard

Shows the status of your instance, including alarms, resource usages, and key performance metrics. DBA Assistant diagnoses instance health using operational data analytics and intelligent algorithms, and provides you with solutions and suggestions for handling detected exceptions.

Viewing the Overall Status of a DB Instance

Sessions

The Sessions page displays slow sessions, active sessions, and total sessions. You can quickly filter slow sessions or active sessions by user, host IP address, or database name. Kill Session and SQL Throttling can be used for urgent instance recovery to ensure database availability.

Managing Real-Time Sessions

Performance

The Performance page displays key metrics of your instance and provides metric comparison between different days. You can keep track of metric changes and detect exceptions in a timely manner.

Performance Monitoring

Slow Query Logs

Displays slow queries within a specified time period. You can view top 5 slow query logs by user or IP address, sort statistics, and identify sources of slow SQL statements.

Viewing Slow Query Logs

SQL Explorer

After Collect All Query Logs is enabled, you can filter, search for, and analyze SQL statements in multiple dimensions and gain a comprehensive insight into all SQL statements. Top SQL helps you locate exceptions.

SQL Throttling

SQL Throttling restricts the execution of SQL statements based on specified rules when there are SQL statements that cannot be optimized timely or a resource (for example, vCPU) bottleneck occurs.

Configuring SQL Throttling