What database aspects should be monitored?

One should implement a monitoring system to constantly monitor the following aspects of a database. This can be achieved by writing custom scripts, implementing Oracle's Enterprise Manager, or buying a third-party monitoring product. If an alarm is triggered, the system should automatically notify the DBA (e-mail, text, etc.) to take appropriate action.
Infrastructure availability:
Is the database up and responding to requests
Are the listeners up and responding to requests
Are the Oracle Names and LDAP Servers up and responding to requests
Are the Application Servers up and responding to requests
Etc.
Things that can cause service outages:
Is the archive log destination filling up?
Objects getting close to their max extents
Tablespaces running low on free space/ Objects what would not be able to extend
User and process limits reached
Etc.

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