Viewing combined metrics with the Performance Insights dashboard
Important
Amazon has announced the end-of-life date for Performance Insights: November 30, 2025. After this date, Amazon RDS will no longer support the Performance Insights console experience, flexible retention periods (1-24 months), and their associated pricing. The Performance Insights API will continue to exist with no pricing changes. Costs for the Performance Insights API will appear in your Amazon bill with the cost of CloudWatch Database Insights.
We recommend that you upgrade any DB clusters using the paid tier of Performance Insights to the Advanced mode of Database Insights before November 30, 2025. For information about upgrading to the Advanced mode of Database Insights, see Turning on the Advanced mode of Database Insights for Amazon Aurora.
If you take no action, DB clusters using Performance Insights will default to using the Standard mode of Database Insights. With Standard mode of Database Insights, you might lose access to performance data history beyond 7 days and might not be able to use execution plans and on-demand analysis features in the Amazon RDS console. After November 30, 2025, only the Advanced mode of Database Insights will support execution plans and on-demand analysis.
With CloudWatch Database Insights, you can monitor database load for your fleet of databases and analyze and troubleshoot performance at scale.
For more information about Database Insights, see Monitoring Amazon Aurora databases with CloudWatch Database Insights.
For pricing information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing
Amazon RDS provides a consolidated view of Performance Insights and CloudWatch metrics for your DB instance in the Performance Insights dashboard. You can use the preconfigured dashboard or create a custom dashboard. The preconfigured dashboard provides the most commonly used metrics to help diagnose performance issues for a database engine. Alternatively, you can create a custom dashboard with the metrics for a database engine that meet your analysis requirements. Then, use this dashboard for all the DB instances of that database engine type in your Amazon account.
You can choose the monitoring view in the Monitoring tab or Performance Insights in the navigation pane.
Performance Insights must be turned on for your DB cluster to view the combined metrics in the Performance Insights dashboard. For more information about turning on Performance Insights, see Turning Performance Insights on and off for Aurora.
In the following sections, you can learn to display Performance Insights and CloudWatch metrics.