Predictive Diagnostics: Performance Modeling

This technical brief provides an overview of predictive diagnostics, which is functionality provided by Quest's Spotlight on Oracle and the Toad DBA Suite for Oracle. Predictive diagnostics enables you to collect and analyze performance metrics to predict the future behavior of an Oracle database.

This paper explains the home page features performance modeling screens, including:

• When will database resources reach their ceilings?
• Why will database resources reach their ceilings?
• What database resources are needed?
• What database load can be supported?