Configuring Licensing

Stack Monitoring provides two licensing options for monitoring your enterprise, Standard and Enterprise Editions:

Note

Any OCI Compute instance that leverages OS Management Hub (OSMH) will be visible within the Stack Monitoring UI. These compute instances will not be included in the Stack Monitoring billing units, and thus not incur any Stack Monitoring charge until the compute instance is promoted to full monitoring.

  • Stack Monitoring Standard Edition discovers and monitors applications and its underlying stack deployed on-premises and cloud (OCI or 3rd party clouds). Generally, these are referred to as ‘resources.’ Monitored resources include applications such as E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, and application tech stack components such as WebLogic Servers, Tomcat, Oracle Database, and hosts.
    • Troubleshooting UI
      • Enterprise Health and Alarm Summary
        • Monitor from macro to micro with a customizable
        • Summarize across the fleet
          • Availability
          • Open alarms
          • availability across the fleet
      • Resource home pages
        • Specially curated per resource type.
        • Topology
  • Stack Monitoring Enterprise Edition provides enhanced monitoring features such as Metric Extensions, baselines/anomalies on performance, ability to import OCI resources into Stack Monitoring for performance correlation across the application stack. These features are either enabled on a per resource basis or across an entire compartment.

    • Standard Edition - All the features included in Standard Edition
    • Advanced Monitoring
      • Baseline and Anomalies - Uses ML on historical data to identify if a resource is performing within expected boundaries or is anomalous.
      • Metric Extensions - Allows for the creation of metrics using custom scripts.
      • Process sets - Monitor a custom application and support new resources.
    • Extensiblity
      • OCI Services - Custom resource types can be added by importing OCI resources into Stack Monitoring. Once imported, a resource homepage will be created. From within that homepage, navigate to related resources UI and create associations between the newly imported resource and other Stack Monitoring resources.
      • Prometheus
      • Telegraf
      • collectd
    • Alarm Management
      • Monitoring Templates - Define metric alarm rule settings once across all resources in a single UI.
      • Maintenance Windows - Scheduled time for maintenance operations during which resource alarm notifications are suppressed.
  • Stack Monitoring Enterprise Edition for GPU Infrastructure is required when monitoring GPU resources. Any other monitored resources which run on a GPU-accelerated host and associated with the GPU host will also receive this license at no charge. Resources using this license have access to all Enterprise Edition features.
    • All features included in both Standard and Enterprise Edition

change license at resource level

Licensing Assignment

Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features

Resource license assignment can done at the individual resource level during discovery or after discovery within the Licensing UI.

Note

License changes applied to a composite will apply to all children (e.g. When applying Enterprise Edition License to a WebLogic Domain, all WebLogic Servers associated to the domain will also receive the Enterprise Edition)

Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features during Discovery

During discovery, you may assign a license to the resource by selecting the corresponding radio button.


discover new resource as enterprise edition

Configure Licensing for Resource-Specific Features after Discovery

A resource license can also be modified after a resource has been discovered using the License UI. For example, to upgrade a Standard Edition resource to Enterprise Edition, navigate to the License UI and click the edit button within the Standard Edition box. The page will filter to only show resources with a Standard Edition license. Click the action button of the resource to upgrade and select Enterprise from the drop down. Continue this process for the remaining resources to upgrade from Standard to Enterprise Edition, finally select apply changes. When applying license changes, remain on the page until all updates have been applied.

Configure Licensing for Compartment specific features

Resource Licensing Auto-Assignment.

The resource license auto-assignment can be set to Enterprise or Standard for all newly resources discovered or promoted resources within a compartment. Configuring license auto-assignment is a convenient way to automatically assign a license instead of apply on a per resource instance basis. To configure the resource license auto-assignment, locate the auto-assignment box within Licensing page of the Stack Monitoring UI.


edit compartment level license

Enterprise Extensibility

Enterprise extensibility is enabled or disable for an entire compartment. To configure enterprise extensibility, locate the enterprise extensibility box within Licensing page of the Stack Monitoring UI.


edit compartment level extensibility