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I often need to retrieve report files or logs from GoldenGate deployments, and I wanted to find ways of automating this. Hence this blog, about retrieving all available logs with GoldenGate REST API.

While testing EVENTACTIONS (SUSPEND) on an extract, I noticed that nothing in INFO tells you the process is suspended.

When automating your GoldenGate deployments, or tearing down a test environment, handling trail files is important.

In a previous blog, I went through the full procedure of renaming a GoldenGate extract from the adminclient. I included all necessary steps to avoid missing transactions.

In a previous post, I shared the OGGRestAPI Python client I built for the GoldenGate REST API. Since then, I kept using it on production deployments, fixing it and adding new features along the way.

In a previous blog, I presented how to set up a distribution path between two GoldenGate deployments both secured with NGINX. The method I used there was purely through the Web UI.

I already covered out-of-place patching from the web UI, but patching tasks should be automated, and clicking through the same screens for every deployment can get repetitive.

When automating your GoldenGate deployment management, you might want to create path connections with the GoldenGate REST API.

*Updated in June 2026, based on the latest version of the client.

In this blog post, I will guide you on how to query the restapi.log file of your GoldenGate deployments more efficiently.

Oracle GoldenGate REST API has been around for quite some time now, but I've yet to see it used in practice at customers. Every time I tried to introduce it, it was some sort of novelty.

If you start using the GoldenGate web UI after installing it, you might end up thinking that extending the session timeout would be nice.