Viewing Amazon RDS events - Amazon Aurora
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Viewing Amazon RDS events

You can retrieve the following event information for your Amazon Aurora resources:

  • Resource name

  • Resource type

  • Time of the event

  • Message summary of the event

Access the events through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, which shows events from the past 24 hours. You can also retrieve events by using the describe-events Amazon CLI command, or the DescribeEvents RDS API operation. If you use the Amazon CLI or the RDS API to view events, you can retrieve events for up to the past 14 days.

Note

If you need to store events for longer periods of time, you can send Amazon RDS events to CloudWatch Events. For more information, see Creating a rule that triggers on an Amazon Aurora event

For descriptions of the Amazon Aurora events, see Amazon RDS event categories and event messages.

To access detailed information about events using Amazon CloudTrail, including request parameters, see CloudTrail events.

To view all Amazon RDS events for the past 24 hours

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Events.

    The available events appear in a list.

  3. (Optional) Enter a search term to filter your results.

    The following example shows a list of events filtered by the characters apg.

    List DB events

To view all events generated in the last hour, call describe-events with no parameters.

aws rds describe-events

The following sample output shows that a DB cluster instance has started recovery.

{
    "Events": [
        {
            "EventCategories": [
                "recovery"
            ], 
            "SourceType": "db-instance", 
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:mycluster-instance-1", 
            "Date": "2022-04-20T15:02:38.416Z", 
            "Message": "Recovery of the DB instance has started. Recovery time will vary with the amount of data to be recovered.", 
            "SourceIdentifier": "mycluster-instance-1"
        }, ...

To view all Amazon RDS events for the past 10080 minutes (7 days), call the describe-events Amazon CLI command and set the --duration parameter to 10080.

aws rds describe-events --duration 10080

The following example shows the events in the specified time range for DB instance test-instance.

aws rds describe-events \
    --source-identifier test-instance \
    --source-type db-instance \
    --start-time 2022-03-13T22:00Z \
    --end-time 2022-03-13T23:59Z

The following sample output shows the status of a backup.

{
    "Events": [
        {
            "SourceType": "db-instance",
            "SourceIdentifier": "test-instance",
            "EventCategories": [
                "backup"
            ],
            "Message": "Backing up DB instance",
            "Date": "2022-03-13T23:09:23.983Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:test-instance"
        },
        {
            "SourceType": "db-instance",
            "SourceIdentifier": "test-instance",
            "EventCategories": [
                "backup"
            ],
            "Message": "Finished DB Instance backup",
            "Date": "2022-03-13T23:15:13.049Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:test-instance"
        }
    ]
}

You can view all Amazon RDS instance events for the past 14 days by calling the DescribeEvents RDS API operation and setting the Duration parameter to 20160.