Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS publishes metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in the AWS/RDS
and AWS/Usage
namespaces.
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Amazon CloudWatch instance-level metrics for Amazon RDS
The AWS/RDS
namespace in Amazon CloudWatch includes the following instance-level metrics.
Note
The Amazon RDS console might display metrics in units that are different from the units sent to Amazon CloudWatch. For example, the Amazon RDS console might display a metric in megabytes (MB), while the metric is sent to Amazon CloudWatch in bytes.
Metric | Description | Applies to | Units |
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BinLogDiskUsage
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The amount of disk space occupied by binary logs. If automatic backups are enabled for MySQL and MariaDB instances, including read replicas, binary logs are created. |
MariaDB MySQL |
Bytes |
BurstBalance |
The percent of General Purpose SSD (gp2) burst-bucket I/O credits available. |
All |
Percent |
CheckpointLag |
The amount of time since the most recent checkpoint. |
Seconds |
|
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The number of attempts to connect to an instance, whether successful or not. |
Count |
|
CPUUtilization |
The percentage of CPU utilization. |
All |
Percentage |
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(T2 instances) The number of CPU credits spent by the instance for CPU utilization. One CPU credit equals one vCPU running at 100 percent utilization for one minute or an equivalent combination of vCPUs, utilization, and time. For example, you might have one vCPU running at 50 percent utilization for two minutes or two vCPUs running at 25 percent utilization for two minutes. CPU credit metrics are available at a five-minute frequency only. If you specify a period greater than five minutes,
use the |
Credits (vCPU-minutes) |
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(T2 instances) The number of earned CPU credits that an instance has accrued since it was launched or started. For
T2 Standard, the Credits are accrued in the credit balance after they are earned, and removed from the credit balance when they are spent. The credit balance has a maximum limit, determined by the instance size. After the limit is reached, any new credits that are earned are discarded. For T2 Standard, launch credits don't count towards the limit. The credits in the When an instance is running, credits in the CPU credit metrics are available at a five-minute frequency only. Launch credits work the same way in Amazon RDS as they do in Amazon EC2. For more information, see Launch credits in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances. |
Credits (vCPU-minutes) |
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The number of surplus credits that have been spent by an unlimited instance
when its The CPU credit metrics are available at a 5-minute frequency only. |
All |
Credits (vCPU-minutes) |
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The number of spent surplus credits that are not paid down by earned CPU credits, and which thus incur an additional charge. Spent surplus credits are charged when any of the following occurs:
CPU credit metrics are available at a 5-minute frequency only. |
All |
Credits (vCPU-minutes) |
DatabaseConnections |
The number of client network connections to the database instance. The number of database sessions can be higher than the metric value because the metric value doesn't include the following:
|
All |
Count |
DiskQueueDepth |
The number of outstanding I/Os (read/write requests) waiting to access the disk. |
All |
Count |
DiskQueueDepthLogVolume |
The number of outstanding I/Os (read/write requests) waiting to access the log volume disk. |
All |
Count |
EBSByteBalance% |
The percentage of throughput credits remaining in the burst bucket of your RDS database. This metric is available for basic monitoring only. The metric value is based on the throughput of all volumes, including the root volume, rather than on only those volumes containing database files. To find the instance sizes that support this metric, see the instance sizes with an asterisk (*) in the EBS optimized by default
table in Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances. The |
All |
Percentage |
EBSIOBalance% |
The percentage of I/O credits remaining in the burst bucket of your RDS database. This metric is available for basic monitoring only. The metric value is based on the IOPS of all volumes, including the root volume, rather than on only those volumes containing database files. To find the instance sizes that support this metric, see the instance sizes with an asterisk (*) in the EBS optimized by default
table in Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances. The This metric is different from |
All |
Percentage |
FailedSQLServerAgentJobsCount
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The number of failed Microsoft SQL Server Agent jobs during the last minute. |
Microsoft SQL Server |
Count per minute |
FreeableMemory |
The amount of available random access memory. For MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL DB instances, this metric reports the value of the
|
All |
Bytes |
FreeStorageSpace |
The amount of available storage space. |
All |
Bytes |
FreeStorageSpaceLogVolume |
The amount of available storage space on the log volume. |
All |
Bytes |
MaximumUsedTransactionIDs |
The maximum transaction IDs that have been used. |
PostgreSQL |
Count |
NetworkReceiveThroughput |
The incoming (receive) network traffic on the DB instance, including both customer database traffic and Amazon RDS traffic used for monitoring and replication. |
All |
Bytes per second |
NetworkTransmitThroughput |
The outgoing (transmit) network traffic on the DB instance, including both customer database traffic and Amazon RDS traffic used for monitoring and replication. |
All |
Bytes per second |
OldestReplicationSlotLag |
The lagging size of the replica lagging the most in terms of write-ahead log (WAL) data received. |
PostgreSQL |
Bytes |
ReadIOPS |
The average number of disk read I/O operations per second. |
All |
Count per second |
ReadIOPSLogVolume |
The average number of disk read I/O operations per second for the log volume. |
All |
Count per second |
ReadLatency |
The average amount of time taken per disk I/O operation. |
All |
Seconds |
ReadLatencyLogVolume |
The average amount of time taken per disk I/O operation for the log volume. |
All |
Seconds |
ReadThroughput |
The average number of bytes read from disk per second. |
All |
Bytes per second |
ReadThroughputLogVolume |
The average number of bytes read from disk per second for the log volume. |
All |
Bytes per second |
ReplicaLag |
For read replica configurations, the amount of time a read replica DB instance lags behind the source DB instance. Applies to MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL read replicas. For Multi-AZ DB clusters, the difference in time between the latest transaction on the writer DB instance and the latest applied transaction on a reader DB instance. |
Seconds |
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ReplicationSlotDiskUsage |
The disk space used by replication slot files. |
PostgreSQL |
Bytes |
SwapUsage |
The amount of swap space used on the DB instance. |
MariaDB MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL |
Bytes |
TransactionLogsDiskUsage |
The disk space used by transaction logs. |
PostgreSQL |
Bytes |
TransactionLogsGeneration |
The size of transaction logs generated per second. |
PostgreSQL |
Bytes per second |
WriteIOPS |
The average number of disk write I/O operations per second. |
All |
Count per second |
WriteIOPSLogVolume |
The average number of disk write I/O operations per second for the log volume. |
All |
Count per second |
WriteLatency |
The average amount of time taken per disk I/O operation. |
All |
Seconds |
WriteLatencyLogVolume |
The average amount of time taken per disk I/O operation for the log volume. |
All |
Seconds |
WriteThroughput |
The average number of bytes written to disk per second. |
All |
Bytes per second |
WriteThroughputLogVolume |
The average number of bytes written to disk per second for the log volume. |
All |
Bytes per second |
Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics for Amazon RDS
The AWS/Usage
namespace in Amazon CloudWatch includes account-level usage metrics for your Amazon RDS service quotas. CloudWatch collects usage
metrics automatically for all Amazon Web Services Regions.
For more information, see CloudWatch usage metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. For more information about quotas, see Quotas and constraints for Amazon RDS and Requesting a quota increase in the Service Quotas User Guide.
Metric | Description | Units* |
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AllocatedStorage |
The total storage for all DB instances. The sum excludes temporary migration instances. |
Gigabytes |
DBClusterParameterGroups |
The number of DB cluster parameter groups in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes default parameter groups. |
Count |
DBClusters |
The number of Amazon Aurora DB clusters in your Amazon Web Services account. |
Count |
DBInstances |
The number of DB instances in your Amazon Web Services account. |
Count |
DBParameterGroups |
The number of DB parameter groups in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes the default DB parameter groups. |
Count |
DBSecurityGroups |
The number of security groups in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes the default security group and the default VPC security group. |
Count |
DBSubnetGroups
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The number of DB subnet groups in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes the default subnet group. |
Count |
ManualClusterSnapshots |
The number of manually created DB cluster snapshots in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes invalid snapshots. |
Count |
ManualSnapshots |
The number of manually created DB snapshots in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes invalid snapshots. |
Count |
OptionGroups |
The number of option groups in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes the default option groups. |
Count |
ReservedDBInstances |
The number of reserved DB instances in your Amazon Web Services account. The count excludes retired or declined instances. |
Count |
* Amazon RDS doesn't publish units for usage metrics to CloudWatch. The units only appear in the documentation.