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Pricing and data retention for Performance Insights

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Pricing and data retention for Performance Insights - Amazon Relational Database Service

By default, Performance Insights offers a free tier that includes 7 days of performance data history and 1 million API requests per month. You can also purchase longer retention periods. For complete pricing information, see Performance Insights Pricing.

In the RDS console, you can choose any of the following retention periods for your Performance Insights data:

  • Default (7 days)

  • n months, where n is a number from 1–24

Choose a retention period for your Performance Insights data.

To learn how to set a retention period using the AWS CLI, see Turning Performance Insights on and off for Amazon RDS.

Note

Stopping a DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster with Performance Insights enabled doesn't affect data retention. While a DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster is stopped, Performance Insights won't collect any data.

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