Monitoring Amazon RDS metrics with Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Monitoring Amazon RDS metrics with Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a metrics repository. The repository collects and processes raw data from Amazon RDS into readable, near real-time metrics. For a complete list of Amazon RDS metrics sent to CloudWatch, see Metrics reference for Amazon RDS.