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Monitoring tools for Amazon Aurora

Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon Aurora and your other AWS solutions. AWS provides various monitoring tools to watch Amazon Aurora, report when something is wrong, and take automatic actions when appropriate.

Automated monitoring tools

We recommend that you automate monitoring tasks as much as possible.

Amazon Aurora cluster status and recommendations

You can use the following automated tools to watch Amazon Aurora and report when something is wrong:

  • Amazon Aurora cluster status — View details about the current status of your cluster by using the Amazon RDS console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API.

  • Amazon Aurora recommendations — Respond to automated recommendations for database resources, such as DB instances, DB clusters, and DB cluster parameter groups. For more information, see Recommendations from Amazon Aurora.

Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for additional monitoring capabilities.

  • Amazon CloudWatch – This service monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. You can use the following Amazon CloudWatch features with Amazon Aurora:

    • Amazon CloudWatch metrics – Amazon Aurora automatically sends metrics to CloudWatch every minute for each active database. You don't get additional charges for Amazon RDS metrics in CloudWatch. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Aurora

    • Amazon CloudWatch alarms – You can watch a single Amazon Aurora metric over a specific time period. You can then perform one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a threshold that you set.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights and operating-system monitoring

You can use the following automated tools to monitor Amazon Aurora performance:

Integrated services

The following AWS services are integrated with Amazon Aurora:

Manual monitoring tools

You need to manually monitor those items that the CloudWatch alarms don't cover. The Amazon RDS, CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor and other AWS console dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of the state of your AWS environment. We recommend that you also check the log files on your DB instance.

  • From the Amazon RDS console, you can monitor the following items for your resources:

    • The number of connections to a DB instance

    • The amount of read and write operations to a DB instance

    • The amount of storage that a DB instance is currently using

    • The amount of memory and CPU being used for a DB instance

    • The amount of network traffic to and from a DB instance

  • From the Trusted Advisor dashboard, you can review the following cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, and performance improvement checks:

    • Amazon RDS Idle DB Instances

    • Amazon RDS Security Group Access Risk

    • Amazon RDS Backups

    • Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

    • Aurora DB Instance Accessibility

    For more information on these checks, see Trusted Advisor best practices (checks).

  • CloudWatch home page shows:

    • Current alarms and status

    • Graphs of alarms and resources

    • Service health status

    In addition, you can use CloudWatch to do the following:

    • Create customized dashboards to monitor the services that you care about.

    • Graph metric data to troubleshoot issues and discover trends.

    • Search and browse all your AWS resource metrics.

    • Create and edit alarms to be notified of problems.