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Kyle Hailey

Author: Kyle Hailey

Set alarms on Performance Insights metrics using HAQM CloudWatch

HAQM RDS Performance Insights recently released a feature that sends key performance metrics from Performance Insights to HAQM CloudWatch. Using this feature, you can set alerts on these metrics. When Performance Insights is enabled, it automatically sends the following three metrics to CloudWatch: DBLoad DBLoadCPU DBLoadNonCPU I describe these three metrics following. DBLoad The first […]

HAQM RDS Performance Insights is now generally available

Today we are pleased to announce general availability of Performance Insights. Already available since October 2017 as an open preview with HAQM Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility, Performance Insights makes it easy to view the load on an HAQM RDS database. Using Performance Insights, you can more easily identify bottlenecks and discover what to do when […]

Analyzing HAQM RDS Database Workloads with Performance Insights

November 2022: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS recently announced general availability of HAQM Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility. With this release, AWS has also included the first release of a useful feature in HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) called Performance Insights. Using a dashboard that visualizes database load—along with which SQL […]