# Diagnosing JDBC Connection Drops

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/diagnosing-jdbc-connection-drops/1618>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent\
**Created:** [August 12, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/diagnosing-jdbc-connection-drops/1618 "2021-08-12T16:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Stoner](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/paul_stoner/32/1067_2.png) [@Paul\_Stoner](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Paul_Stoner)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/diagnosing-jdbc-connection-drops/1618/1 "2021-08-12T16:33:33Z")

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Hello,

We are having issues with one of our applications randomly closing/dropping connections to an Oracle database. Would it be possible to utilize the oracle db collector to aid in determining the root cause?

What might be a strategy to do so?

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**Author:** ![andrewm4894](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/andrewm4894/32/125_2.png) [@andrewm4894](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/andrewm4894)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/diagnosing-jdbc-connection-drops/1618/2 "2021-08-17T10:09:19Z")

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Hello @Paul_Stoner welcome!

I’d say it should be possible to just set up the collector with some simple default setting and run some little experiments to see maybe:

> **[OracleDB monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin/oracledb)**
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> Monitors the performance and health metrics of the Oracle database.

I would imagine the closing or dropping connections should show up in some of the default charts - session count and logons maybe and some of the other usage charts.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Stoner](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/paul_stoner/32/1067_2.png) [@Paul\_Stoner](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Paul_Stoner)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/diagnosing-jdbc-connection-drops/1618/3 "2021-08-17T16:29:42Z")

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@andrewm4894, That’s what I thought as well, but wanted some confirmation.

Thank you/ I’ll go ahead and give that a try