AWS RDS Monitoring

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Bleemeo collects metrics for Amazon Relational Database Service instances via CloudWatch. Metrics are polled every 1 minute.

Metrics

Metric	Description
rds_cpu_used	CPU usage as a percentage
rds_mem_used	Memory used in bytes
rds_mem_used_perc	Memory used as a percentage
rds_mem_free	Freeable memory in bytes
rds_disk_used	Storage space used in bytes
rds_disk_used_perc	Storage space used as a percentage
rds_disk_free	Free storage space in bytes
rds_io_reads	Number of read I/O operations per second
rds_io_writes	Number of write I/O operations per second
rds_connection	Number of active database connections

IAM Permissions

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "ec2:DescribeRegions",
                "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
                "rds:DescribeDBClusters"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Estimated AWS Cost

$2.64/month per DB instance (6 CloudWatch API calls per minute).

See Also

• Configuration — set up AWS credentials