Panorama: Do I need Diagnostics Pack and Tuning Pack license to use Panorama?
This post describes how Panorama allows usage without violating Oracle's license conditions if you don't have Diagnostics Pack and Tuning Pack license. You can run Panorama with access on original AWR/ASH (which requires EE and Diagnostics Pack) or with access on Panorama's own sampled history data which doesn't require EE and Diagnostics Pack. Before accessing AWR/ASH-data Panorama asks you which mode you want to use. Several functions of Panorama require one of the following: Enterprise Edition and Diagnostics Pack licensed or Use Panorama's own data sampled by Panorama-Sampler instead Panorama's function "SQL monitor" is available only if you've licensed Oracle's "Tuning Pack". Accessing restricted dictionary data (like AWR) with Panorama has preconditions to ensure compliance with Oracle's license conditions: After connecting to a database with Panorama you have to acknowledge at first one of the four options: