RDS Enhanced Monitoring for CloudWatch Metrics

Overview

Coralogix offers RDS enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS metrics from CloudWatch using the Amazon RDS API to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to resroucegrouptagging API and adds all the new metrics that are specified in this document under Collected data.

Prerequisites

AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration
Policy permissions used for this integration:
rds:Describe*
rds:List*
ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes for getting instance memory and number of cpus

Configuration

RdsEnhancedMonitoring toggle in the AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration configuration

Collected data

Metrics

Metric Name	Dimensions	Description
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_IOPS	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_StorageThroughput_BytesPerSecond	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_AllocatedStorage_Bytes	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_Status	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_AllocatedMemory_Bytes	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric, avaliable only for db instances that match ec2 ones, for example this metric is not avaliable for `serverless`
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_Database_AllocatedVCPU	DBInstanceIdentifier	provisioned instance metric, avaliable only for db instances that match ec2 ones, for example this metric is not avaliable for `serverless`
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_ReservedDatabase_UsagePrice	ReservedDatabaseInstanceId	reserved instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_ReservedDatabase_DurationSeconds	ReservedDatabaseInstanceId	reserved instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_ReservedDatabase_AllocatedMemory_Bytes	ReservedDatabaseInstanceId	reserved instance metric, avaliable only for db instances that match ec2 ones, for example this metric is not avaliable for `serverless`
amazonaws_com_AWS_RDS_ReservedDatabase_AllocatedVCPU	ReservedDatabaseInstanceId	reserved instance metric, avaliable only for db instances that match ec2 ones, for example this metric is not avaliable for `serverless`

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ECS Enhanced Monitoring for CloudWatch Metrics

Next AWS CloudWatch Metrics Processing

Instance Type	Tags
provisioned instances	`AllocatedStorage`, `IOPS`, `StorageThroughput`, `StorageEncrypted`, `DatabaseClass`, `DatabaseStatus`, `EngineName`, `EngineVersion`, `MultiAz`, `DatabaseSubnetGroupName`, `DatabasePort`
reserved instances	`ReservedDatabaseInstanceId`, `ReservedDatabaseInstancesOfferingId`, `DatabaseClass`, `FixedPrice`, `CurrencyCode`, `DatabaseCount`, `OfferingType`, `MultiAz`, `State`