Monitoring and Alerting Best Practices for Amazon RDS

This guide provides detailed information on monitoring and alerting tools and best practices specifically for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, focusing on MySQL and MariaDB. It outlines the significance of database monitoring, which involves measuring and assessing the availability, performance, and functionality of databases. The document emphasizes the importance of using monitoring solutions to ensure database services are secure, high-performing, and resilient. It describes how organizations can collect and analyze workload logs, metrics, events, and traces to understand the health of their workloads and to detect issues proactively. The guide is intended for solutions architects, database architects, database administrators, and senior DevOps engineers involved in designing and managing monitoring solutions in the AWS Cloud. It includes sections on general best practices, monitoring tools, database instance monitoring, operating system monitoring, events, logs, audit trails, and alerting mechanisms.