Monitored Parameters

Amazon RDS Instances are monitored based on the parameters or the attributes listed below. These attributes provide information about the functioning of the RDS instance. You can also configure thresholds to the numerical attributes based on these details and get notified when the thresholds are violated.

The Availability tab shows the Availability history of the RDS instances for the past 24 hours or 30 days. The Performance tab shows some key performance indicators of an EC2 instance such as CPU Utilization, Free Storage Space, Database Connections and Write Throughput along with the heat charts for these attributes. This tab also shows the health status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.

The List view displays all the RDS instances present in the Amazon account along with an overall idea of their availability and health status. The list view also enables you to perform bulk admin configurations. Click on the individual instance listed to view detailed performance metrics.

Click on the monitor listed in the Availability tab to view detailed performance metrics of the RDS instance. These metrics are categorized into 2 different tabs for easy understanding. Below is an explanation of the metrics shown in these tabs:

1) Overview

This tab provides a high-level overview of the RDS Instance as well as its resource utilization.

Parameter	Description
Monitor Information
Name	The name of the RDS instance.
Type	Denotes the type you are monitoring.
Health	Denotes the health (Clear, Warning, Critical) status of the RDS instance.
Region Name	The region in which the RDS instance is running.
Instance Type	Indicates the type of instance
Created Time	The time when the instance was created.
State	The current state of the instance. The values include running, stopped, shutdown and terminated
DB Engine Name	The name of the database engine associated with this instance
Last Polled at	Specifies the time at which the last poll was performed.
Next Poll at	Specifies the time at which the next poll is scheduled.
Today's Availability	Shows the overall availability status of the instance for the day. You can also view 7/30 reports and the current availability status of the instance.
CPU Utilization
CPU Utilization	The percentage of CPU Utilization
Free Storage Space	The amount of available storage space.
Database Connections	The number of database connections in use.
Network Traffic
Read Throughput	The average number of bytes read from the disk per second.
Write Throughput	The average number of bytes written to the disk per second.
Network Latency
Read Latency	The average amount of time taken per disk read operation.
Write Latency	The average amount of time taken per disk write operation.
Disk I/O
Read Ops	The average number of disk Read operations per second.
Write Ops	The average number of disk write operations per second.

2) Configuration

This tab provides the configuration details of the RDS instance.

Parameter	Description
Instance ID	The unique key that identifies the RDS instance
Instance Type	Indicates the type of instance
Created Time	The time when the instance was created.
State	The current status of the instance. Valid values include available, backing-up, creating, deleted, deleting, failed, modifying, rebooting and resetting-master-credentials
DB Engine Name	The name of the database engine used for this instance.
MasterUser Name	The master username for the instance.
DB Name	Name of the initial database created when the instance was created.
Allocated Storage	The storage space initially allocated to this instance, specified in GBs
Endpoint Address	The DNS Address of the DB instance
Endpoint Port	Port used to connect to the DB instance
Multi(A-Z)Deployment	Indicates if this is a Multi-AZ DB Instance.
Availability Zone	The instance's availability zone
PreferredBackup Window	The daily period during which automated backups are created.
LatestRestorableTime	The latest time to which a database can be restored using point-in-time restore.
BackupRetentionPeriod	The number of days that automated backups are retained before deletion.
PreferredMaintenanceWindow	The period during which patching and instance modifications will be performed.

See Also

Creating New Monitor - Amazon

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