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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

Collected data

Tags

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

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

Support

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