Knowledge Base : Configure Statspack

Adjusting the STATSPACK Collection Level

There are two types of collection options, level and threshold. Level controls the type of data collected, threshold is a filter for collection of SQL statements into stats$sql_summary.

SQL> SELECT * FROM stats$level_description ORDER BY snap_level;

Level 0 This level captures general statistics, including rollback segment, row cache, SGA, system events, background events, session events, system statistics, wait statistics, lock statistics, and Latch information.

Level 5 This level includes capturing high resource usage SQL Statements, along with all data captured by lower levels.
Level 6 This level includes capturing SQL plan and SQL plan usage information for high resource usage SQL Statements, along with all data captured by lower levels.
Level 7 This level captures segment level statistics, including logical and physical reads, row lock, itl and buffer busy waits, along with all data captured by lower levels.
Level 10 This level includes capturing Child Latch statistics, along with all data captured by lower levels.

You can change the default level of a snapshot with the statspack.snap function. The i_modify_parameter => ‘true’ changes the level permanent for all snapshots in the future.

SQL> exec statspack.snap(i_snap_level => 6, i_modify_parameter => ‘true’);