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Monitoring Amazon RDS: Beyond Raw Logs

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a hosted database service in the AWS cloud. If your organization’s data is stored in one of the popular database systems, but on a company server or perhaps you’re renting a dedicated server, you might want to consider switching to Amazon RDS.  With Amazon RDS, you can choose from several relational database systems:  MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Postgres, and SQL Server, as well as Amazon Aurora.

There are many advantages to Amazon RDS, such as server scaling and load balancing of user traffic. Best of all, it can reduce the operational costs of running database software like MySQL. With Amazon RDS, you don’t need to worry about performing security updates, patching the operating system, or tuning the database. In fact, some of the patches Amazon deploys for MySQL and MariaDB are specifically designed to get better performance in a cloud setting.  Let’s look at some major …

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Graphing Amazon RDS MySQL Metrics with Prometheus & Grafana

Recently the mysql community got an awesome monitoring solution for mysql

with Prometheus & Grafana. The graphs are simply beautiful and really lively.

I started off with this nice post on the mysql performance blog  by Roman Vynar and got the solution up and running very easily.

You can actually monitor Amazon RDS instance with the same steps mentioned in the above post but with a few changes:

 

The monitoring framework consists of 4 components:

  1. Prometheus server on port 9090
  2. Grafana server on port 3000
  3. MySQL …
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