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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:24:57+00:00

When you take your first look at an Oracle database, one of the first

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When you take your first look at an Oracle database, one of the first questions is often ‘where’s the alert log?’. Grid Control can tell you, but its often not available in the environment.

I posted some bash and Perl scripts to find and tail the alert log on my blog some time back, and I’m surprised to see that post still getting lots of hits.

The technique used is to lookup background_dump_dest from v$parameter. But I only tested this on Oracle Database 10g.

Is there a better approach than this? And does anyone know if this still works in 11g?

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  1. Am sure it will work in 11g, that parameter has been around for a long time.

    Seems like the correct way to find it to me.

    If the background_dump_dest parameter isn’t set, the alert.log will be put in $ORACLE_HOME/RDBMS/trace

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