Rittman Mead Blog - Performance Analytics

OBIEE Component Status Notifications

At Rittman Mead, we often hear requests for features or solutions generally not provided by Oracle. These requests range from commentary functionality to custom javascript visualizations. There are many ways to implement these functionalities, but organizations often lack the in-house resources to engineer an acceptable solution. Rittman Mead has the

performance analytics

A Performance Analytics Application Case Study: Challenges and Successes

The Performance Analytics application is a collection of open source technologies that aids users in: identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying causes for slow report execution, discovering areas for performance optimization, and gathering meaningful insights into the health of an OBIEE environment. This post focuses on lessons learned after a successful Performance

Performance

New Performance Analytics Release

Poor performance is one of the most common complaints we hear upon arrival to customer sites, and often for good reason. When users have time to “make the rounds” before the system returns a result (if it returns a result at all), they have the right to be frustrated. Unfortunately,

kibana

Time Series Visualisations: Kibana or Grafana?

Grafana [http://grafana.org/] has rapidly become one of the de-facto “DevOps” tools for real time monitoring dashboards of time series metrics. In addition to its powerful visualisations, Grafana is not tied to a particular stack or vendor, and supports multiple backend data sources including InfluxDB [https://www.influxdata.com/

obiee

All You Ever Wanted to Know About OBIEE Performance…but were too afraid to ask

At the Polish Oracle Users Group (POUG) conference [http://poug.org/en/timeline/] this week I'm presenting one of my favourite talks, [Still] No Silver Bullets - OBIEE Performance in the Real World [https://speakerdeck.com/rmoff/still-no-silver-bullets-obiee-12c-performance-in-the-real-world] . This presentation is based on the shared experiences of myself

Technical

New OTN Article - OBIEE Performance Analytics: Analysing the Impact of Suboptimal Design

I’m pleased to have recently had my first article published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html]. You can read it in its full splendour and glory(!) over there [https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-993649], but I thought I’d give a bit

Technical

OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)

One of the first steps to improve OBIEE performance is to determine why it is slow. That may sound obvious—can’t fix it if you don’t know what you’re fixing, right? Unfortunately, the “Drunk Man anti-method [http://www.brendangregg.com/methodology.html]”, in which we merrily stumble