  Since the detection of non-radial solar-like oscillation modes in red giants
with the CoRoT satellite, the interest in the asteroseismic properties of red
giants and the link with their global properties and internal structure is
substantially increasing. Moreover, more and more precise data are being
collected with the space-based telescopes CoRoT and Kepler. In this paper we
present a survey of the most relevant theoretical and observational results
obtained up to now concerning the potential of solar-like oscillations in red
giants.
