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Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Trigger an AWS Lambda function from Amazon RDS for MySQL or Amazon RDS for MariaDB using audit logs and Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute offering that helps you design event-driven architectures. It provides direct integration with multiple AWS services, including Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. In this post, we show you how to invoke Lambda functions from Amazon Relational Databases Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB using Amazon CloudWatch and […]
Monitor Amazon Aurora Global Database replication at scale using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights
Amazon Aurora is a high-performance, fully managed relational database service offered by AWS. It is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing exceptional scalability, availability, and durability for your data. Amazon Aurora Global Database allows you to replicate up to five different AWS Regions and provides robust disaster recovery capabilities. To ensure the resilience and recovery […]
Automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
Customer databases are constantly growing. When you increase storage for a database in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can’t make further storage modifications for either 6 hours or until storage optimization has completed on the instance, whichever is longer. Amazon RDS storage autoscaling increases storage by 10 GiB, 10% of currently allocated storage, […]
Set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms on Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring OS metrics
Monitoring is an important aspect of database management. Database administrators, application teams, and architects want to proactively eradicate performance issues before they affect users or cause an outage. To achieve this, they need the right level of visibility into database health indicators. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides monitoring tools, such as Enhanced Monitoring […]
Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides access to real-time metrics for your operating system, enabling you to monitor how different processes or threads use RDS resources. You can manage the metrics you want to monitor for each instance on the Amazon RDS console. Amazon CloudWatch is the native monitoring tool of AWS. It is […]
Build a centralized audit data collection for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL using Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena
Database audits are one of the important compliance requirements that organizations need to meet. You might be required to capture, store, and retain the audit data for the long term. You also need to meet your organization’s information security regulations and standards. In this post, we show you how to capture and store audit data […]
Receive SNS notifications about Amazon RDS for SQL Server when database state changes to Offline or Online
Monitoring is an important aspect for any relational database management system (RDBMS). A good monitoring setup gives us better visibility and control of our database setups. Many of our customers use Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) event notifications to monitor different metrics and events. Amazon RDS event subscription offers instance-level […]
How to use CloudWatch Logs Insights on Amazon RDS for Oracle log files for real-time analysis
Most database engines log error messages, warnings, traces, and audit statements. Database observability and monitoring are achieved by tracking this log information and taking proactive and reactive actions, such as allocating space when it is low, or stopping sessions causing exclusive locks or connection storms. In Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle, alert […]
Monitor Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying Operating System (OS) and database environment. With Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, you can customize the database server host and OS and apply special patches or change database software settings to […]
Send alerts on custom AWS DMS errors from Amazon CloudWatch Logs
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a widely used AWS service to migrate data into the AWS Cloud from on-premises databases or within AWS databases in the cloud. For smooth migrations using AWS DMS, it’s imperative to monitor the AWS DMS resources and tasks, specifically for errors and warnings. Monitoring AWS DMS task via […]