Oracle GoldenGate provides real-time replication between Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle databases, or between Oracle databases hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It supports both unidirectional and bidirectional replication.
When you use GoldenGate for replication, monitoring is critical to verify that the GoldenGate process is up and running, to make sure that the source and target databases are in sync.
This pattern explains the steps to implement Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for a GoldenGate error log, and how to set alarms to send notifications for specific events such as STOP or ABEND so you can take appropriate actions to resume replication quickly.
