Monitoring tools
We recommend that you use observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to:
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Gain insights into the performance of your Amazon RDS environment
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Detect unexpected and suspicious behavior
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Plan capacity and make educated decisions about allocating Amazon RDS instances
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Analyze metrics and logs to predict potential issues proactively
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Generate alerts when thresholds are breached in order to troubleshoot and resolve problems before your users are affected
You have different options and solutions to choose from, including AWS-provided, cloud-native observability and monitoring tools and services; free, open-source software solutions; and commercial third-party solutions for monitoring Amazon RDS DB instances. Some of these tools are discussed in the sections that follow.
To determine which tool best suits your needs, compare each tool's features and capabilities against your organization's requirements. We also recommend that you evaluate the tools for ease of deployment, configuration and integration, software updates and maintenance, method of deployment (for example, hardware or serverless), licensing, price, and any other factors that are specific to your organization.
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