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Monitoring: Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can choose from several popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MariaDB.

Why should you monitor Amazon RDS?

Monitoring Amazon RDS is crucial for several reasons, including availability, performance, and cost optimization.

  • Availability: Monitoring Amazon RDS helps you ensure that your database is available and accessible to your applications and users.
  • Performance: Monitoring Amazon RDS allows you to optimize your database’s performance by identifying and troubleshooting performance issues.
  • Cost Optimization: Monitoring Amazon RDS helps you manage costs by identifying and reducing unnecessary database resource usage.

That’s why it is crucuial to monitor Amazon RDS.

Monitoring: Amazon RDS

How does monitoring Amazon RDS work?

Without further ado, marbot monitors Amazon RDS. Here is how an notification delivered to a Microsoft Teams channel looks like.

AWS CodePipeline alert in Micoft Teams

And here is the same alert in Slack.

AWS CodePipeline alert in Slack

How to setup monitoring of Amazon RDS?

marbot works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. Please select your platform and follow the Getting started guide.

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