RDS Monitoring

Monitoring Amazon RDS by

• Amazon RDS Events – Subscribe to Amazon RDS events to be notified when changes occur with a DB instance, DB cluster, DB snapshot, DB cluster snapshot, DB parameter group, or DB security group.
• Database log files – View, download, or watch database log files using the Amazon RDS console or Amazon RDS API actions. You can also query some database log files that are loaded into database tables.
• Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring — Look at metrics in real time for the operating system that your DB instance or DB cluster runs on.
• Amazon CloudWatch Metrics – Amazon RDS automatically sends metrics to CloudWatch every minute for each active database instance and cluster.
• Amazon CloudWatch Alarms – Watch a single Amazon RDS metric over a specific time period, and perform actions based on the value of the metric relative to a threshold you set.
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs – MariaDB, MySQL, and Aurora MySQL enable you to monitor, store, and access your database log files in CloudWatch Logs.

Amazon RDS console can monitor

• The number of connections to a DB instance
• The amount of read and write operations to a DB instance
• The amount of storage that a DB instance is currently utilizing
• The amount of memory and CPU being utilized for a DB instance
• The amount of network traffic to and from a DB instance

AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard can check

• Amazon RDS Idle DB Instances
• Amazon RDS Security Group Access Risk
• Amazon RDS Backups
• Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

CloudWatch home page lists

• Current alarms and status
• Graphs of alarms and resources
• Service health status
• Create customized dashboards
• Graph metric data to troubleshoot issues and discover trends
• Search and browse all AWS resource metrics
• Create and edit alarms to be notified of problems