Category: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Many of our customers running SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances want to capture specific events (systems and user-defined) for monitoring and troubleshooting issues with SQL Server. SQL Server logs these events in its error logs and agent logs. A deadlock is an event that can be captured in SQL Server […]

With more than 45,000 employees in 29 countries, Liberty Mutual is the sixth largest global property and casualty insurer, and currently ranks 71st on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the US. The expectations of customers continue to increase as the pace of change accelerates, the nature and magnitude of risk change, and […]

Monitoring databases is essential for any DBA, from dev-test databases to mission-critical databases. You want to capture system and user-defined events for monitoring and troubleshooting problems related to your database instance. MySQL records these events in error logs. In this post, we show you how to monitor different events, such as deadlocks, access denied errors, […]

Database administrators set up monitoring on database log files to get alerted on certain informational and critical events relating to a pattern of errors specific to a database. Monitoring for errors on a business-critical database is essential to avoid unexpected outcomes such as a missed service-level agreement (SLA), which might result in penalties. A good […]

Customers running Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) want to shorten the process of accessing database logs and to receive proactive notifications of database alerts. Generally, database administrators have host access to the database servers, which gives them access to the database logs on the host file system, which are used for monitoring and validating […]