Using Filters with Workload Capture

By default, all user sessions are recorded during workload capture. You can use workload filters to specify which user sessions to include in or exclude from the workload during workload capture. There are two types of workload filters: inclusion filters and exclusion filters. You can use either inclusion filters or exclusion filters in a workload capture, but not both.

Inclusion filters enable you to specify user sessions that will be captured in the workload. This is useful if you want to capture only a subset of the database workload.

Exclusion filters enable you to specify user sessions that will not be captured in the workload. This is useful if you want to filter out session types that do not need to captured in the workload, such as background processes that may already be running on the test system. For example, if the system where the workload will be replayed is running Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM), replaying captured EM sessions on the system will result in duplication of workload. In this case, you may want to use exclusion filters to filter out EM sessions.