Amazon Aurora DB Monitoring


Amazon Aurora DB - An Overview

Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine from Amazon Web Services, available as part of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Being MySQL and PostgreSQL - compatible and built for the cloud, Amazon Aurora provides security, availability, and reliability with the simplicity of open source databases.

Adding a new Amazon Aurora DB monitor

To learn how to create a new Amazon Aurora DB monitor, refer here.

Monitored Parameters

Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on RDS in the Amazon Instances under the Cloud Apps Table. Displayed is the bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:

  • Availability tab gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.

Click on the monitor name to see all the Amazon Aurora Database metrics listed under the following tabs:

Overview

Metric
Description
Supported Engines
Aurora PgSQL
Aurora MySQL
Other engine types
CPU Utilization(%) The percentage of CPU utilization.
Database Connections The number of database connections in use.
Free Memory(GB)  
Free Storage Space(%) The amount of available storage space.
Free Local Storage(GB) The amount of local storage that is free on an Aurora instance.
Swap Usage(MB) The amount of swap space used on the DB Instance.

Disk I/O

Metric
Description
Supported Engines
Aurora PgSQL
Aurora MySQL
Other engine types
Read Latency(Seconds) The average amount of time taken per disk read I/O operation in seconds.
Read Ops(Ops/Sec) The average number of disk read I/O operations per second.
Read Throughput(Bytes/Sec) The average number of bytes read from disk per second.
Write Latency(Seconds) The average amount of time taken per disk write I/O operation.
Write Ops(Ops/Sec) The average number of disk write I/O operations per second.
Write Throughput(Bytes/Sec) The average number of bytes written to disk per second.
Used Volume(GB) The amount of storage in bytes used by the Aurora database.
Volume Read IOPs(Ops/Sec) The number of billed read I/O operations from a cluster volume, reported at 5-minute intervals.
Volume Write IOPs(Ops/Sec) The average number of write disk I/O operations to the cluster volume reported at 5-minute intervals.

Network

Metric
Description
Supported Engines
Aurora PgSQL
Aurora MySQL
Other engine types
Incoming traffic(kB/s) The incoming (Receive) network traffic on the DB instance.
Outgoing traffic(kB/s) The outgoing (Transmit) network traffic on the DB instance.

Aurora DB

Metric
Description
Supported Engines
Aurora PgSQL
Aurora MySQL
Other engine types
Active Transactions The average rate of current transactions executing on a DB instance.
Blocked Transactions The average rate of transactions in the database that are blocked.
Bin Logs Disk Usage(MB) The amount of disk space occupied by binary logs on the master.
Transaction Logs Disk Usage(MB) The amount of disk space occupied by transaction logs.
Buffer Cache Hit Ratio(%) The percentage of requests that are served by the Buffer cache.
ResultSet Cache Hit Ratio(%) The percentage of requests that are served by the Resultset cache.
Deadlocks The average number of deadlocks in the database per second.
Aurora ReplicaLag(ms) The average lag when replicating updates from the primary instance. This metric will be populated only for Aurora cluster 'Reader' and similarly 'ReplicaLag Minimum and Maximum' will be populated only for Aurora Cluster ' Writer' role instances.
ReplicaLag Maximum(ms) The maximum amount of lag between the primary instance and each Aurora instance in the DB cluster.
ReplicaLag Minimum(ms) The minimum amount of lag between the primary instance and each Aurora instance in the DB cluster.

Note: The Aurora Replica Lag metric will be populated only for Aurora cluster 'Reader'. The ReplicaLag Minimum/Maximum will be populated only for Aurora Cluster 'Writer' role instances.

DB Operations

Metric
Description
Supported Engines
Aurora PgSQL
Aurora MySQL
Other engine types
Commit Latency(ms) The amount of latency for committed transactions.
Commit Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of committed transactions.
DDL Latency(ms) The amount of latency for DDL requests (create/alter/drop).
DDL Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of DDL requests per second.
Delete Latency(ms) The average latency for delete queries.
Delete Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of delete queries.
Insert Latency(ms) The amount of latency for insert queries.
Insert Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of insert queries.
Number of Queries(Queries/sec) The average rate of queries executed per second.
Select Latency(ms) The average latency for select queries.
Select Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of select queries.
Update Latency(ms) The average latency for update queries.
Update Throughput(Ops/Sec) The average rate of update queries.

Configuration

Metric Description
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Instance ID The unique key that identifies the instance.
DBInstance ARN The Amazon Resource Name for the source DB instance.
DB Engine Name The name of the database engine used for this instance.
Engine Version The database engine version.
Created Time The time when the instance was created.
DB Name The name of the initial database created when the instance was created.
Master User Name The master username for the instance.
License Model The license model information for the DB instance.
INSTANCE DETAILS
Instance Type The type of instance.
Storage Type The storage type to be associated with the DB instance.
Allocated Storage (GB) The storage space initially allocated to this instance in GB.
Storage Encrypted Specifies the encryption status of the DB instance.
State The current status of the instance. Valid values include available, backing-up, creating, deleted, deleting, failed, modifying, rebooting and resetting-master-credentials.
Multi(A-Z) Deployment Indicates if this is a Multi-AZ DB Instance.
Region Name The name of AWS region where the current DynamoDB table resides.
SECURITY AND NETWORK
Availability Zone The instance's availability zone.
Publicly Accessible Specifies if the DB instance is marked as publicly accessible.
Endpoint Address The DNS Address of the DB instance.
Endpoint Port The port used to connect to the DB instance.
MAINTENANCE DETAILS
Preferred Maintenance Window The period during which patching and instance modifications will be performed.
Latest Restorable Time The latest time to which a database can be restored using point-in-time restore.
Backup Retention Period The number of days that automated backups are retained before deletion.
Preferred Backup Window The daily period during which automated backups are created.
CLUSTER CONFIGURATION
Aurora Cluster Name The name of the Aurora cluster to which the RDS instance belongs to.
Cluster ARN The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the DB cluster.
Cluster Endpoint The endpoint for an Aurora DB cluster that connects to the current primary DB instance for that DB cluster.
Cluster Reader Endpoint The endpoint for an Aurora DB cluster that connects to one of the available Aurora Replicas for that DB cluster.
Cluster Created Time The time when the DB cluster was created
Cluster Instance Role The role that is associated with the DB instance. [Reader/ Writer]
Cluster Group status The current state of this DB cluster group.