Updated on 2024-04-11 GMT+08:00

Configuring Displayed Metrics

The RDS Agent monitors RDS DB instances and collects monitoring metrics only.

Description

This section describes the metrics that can be monitored by Cloud Eye as well as their namespaces and dimensions. You can use APIs provided by Cloud Eye to query the monitoring metrics and alarms generated for RDS.

Namespace

SYS.RDS

DB Instance Monitoring Metrics

  • Table 1 lists the performance metrics of RDS for PostgreSQL DB instances.
    Table 1 Performance metrics

    Metric ID

    Name

    Description

    Value Range

    Monitored Object

    Monitoring Interval (Raw Data)

    rds001_cpu_util

    CPU Usage

    CPU usage of the monitored object

    0-100%

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds002_mem_util

    Memory Usage

    Memory usage of the monitored object

    0-100%

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    read_count_per_second

    Read IOPS

    Average number of read I/O requests processed by the system in a specified period

    counts

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    write_count_per_second

    Write IOPS

    Average number of write I/O requests processed by the system in a specified period

    counts

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds004_bytes_in

    Network Input Throughput

    Incoming traffic in bytes per second

    ≥ 0 bytes/s

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds005_bytes_out

    Network Output Throughput

    Outgoing traffic in bytes per second

    ≥ 0 bytes/s

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds039_disk_util

    Storage Space Usage

    Storage space usage of the monitored object

    0-100%

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds040_transaction_logs_usage

    Transaction Logs Usage

    Storage space usage of transaction logs

    ≥ 0 MB

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds041_replication_slot_usage

    Replication Slot Usage

    Storage space usage of replication slot files

    ≥ 0 MB

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds042_database_connections

    Database Connections in Use

    Number of database connections in use

    ≥ 0 counts

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds043_maximum_used_transaction_ids

    Maximum Used Transaction IDs

    Maximum number of transaction IDs that have been used

    ≥ 0 counts

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds044_transaction_logs_generations

    Transaction Logs Generation

    Size of transaction logs generated per second

    ≥ 0 MB/s

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds045_oldest_replication_slot_lag

    Oldest Replication Slot Lag

    Lagging size of the most lagging replica in terms of WAL data received

    ≥ 0 MB

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds046_replication_lag

    Replication Lag

    Replication lag

    ≥ 0 ms

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds047_disk_total_size

    Total Storage Space

    Total storage space of the monitored object

    40–4,000 GB

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds048_disk_used_size

    Used Storage Space

    Used storage space of the monitored object

    0–4,000 GB

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds049_disk_read_throughput

    Disk Read Throughput

    Number of bytes read from the disk per second

    ≥ 0 bytes/s

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

    rds050_disk_write_throughput

    Disk Write Throughput

    Number of bytes written into the disk per second

    ≥ 0 bytes/s

    RDS for PostgreSQL instance

    1 minute

Dimension

Key

Value

postgresql_instance_id

RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance ID