Help Center/ Relational Database Service_RDS for MySQL/ User Guide/ Database Proxy (Read/Write Splitting)/ Viewing Proxy Instance Metrics
Updated on 2026-11-09 GMT+08:00
View PDF
Share

Viewing Proxy Instance Metrics

Scenarios

Cloud Eye monitors the statuses of your RDS proxy instances. You can view their metrics on the console.

Proxy Instance Metrics lists the metrics.

Prerequisites

  • Proxy instances are created.
  • The proxy instance statuses are Available.

Viewing Proxy Instance Metrics

  1. Log in to the RDS console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
  3. In the instance list, click the target instance name to go to the Summary page.
  4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Database Proxy.
  5. Locate the target proxy instance and click View Proxy Metrics to go to the Cloud Eye console.
  6. On the displayed page, view monitoring metrics.

    • You can click Select Metric and choose the metrics you want in the displayed dialog box.
    • You can also drag the charts to your preferred order.

Proxy Instance Metrics

Table 1 Metrics

Metric ID

Name

Description

Value Range

Unit

Conversion Rule

Dimension

Monitoring Interval (Raw Data)

rds001_cpu_util

CPU Usage

CPU usage of the monitored object

0–100

%

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds002_mem_util

Memory Usage

Memory usage of the monitored object

0–100

%

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds004_bytes_in

Network Input Throughput

Incoming traffic in bytes per second

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024(IEC)

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds005_bytes_out

Network Output Throughput

Outgoing traffic in bytes per second

≥ 0

Byte/s

1024(IEC)

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_frontend_connections

Frontend Connections

Number of connections between applications and the proxy

≥ 0

count

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

5 seconds

1 second

rds_proxy_backend_connections

Backend Connections

Number of connections between the proxy and RDS database

≥ 0

count

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

5 seconds

1 second

rds_proxy_average_response_time

Average Response Time

Elapsed time from when a proxy receives a SQL statement to when it receives the final result set.

≥ 0

ms

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_query_per_seconds

QPS

Number of SQL queries per second

≥ 0

count/s

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_read_query_proportions

Read Proportion

Proportion of read requests to total requests

0–100

%

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_write_query_proportions

Write Proportion

Proportion of write requests to total requests

0–100

%

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_frontend_connection_creation

Front-End Connections Created per Second

Number of connections created per second between the database proxy and applications

≥ 0

count/s

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_transaction_query

Transaction Queries per Second

Number of SELECT statements executed in transactions per second

≥ 0

count/s

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_multi_statement_query

Multi-Statement Queries per Second

Number of multi-statements executed in transactions per second

≥ 0

count/s

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute

rds_proxy_connection_failed_count

Proxy connection failed times

Number of times the proxy fails to automatically connect to the backend within a monitoring period

≥ 0

count

N/A

dbproxy_instance_id,dbproxy_node_id

1 minute
Parent Topic: Database Proxy (Read/Write Splitting)