RDS Enhanced Monitoring

• In RDS, these are the Enhanced Monitoring metrics:

  • RDS child processes

    • Shows a summary of the RDS processes that support the DB instance.

    • This display helps you identify which processes are having the greatest impact on performance.

  • RDS processes

    • Shows a summary of the resources used by the RDS management agent, diagnostics monitoring processes, and other AWS processes that are required to support RDS DB instances.

  • OS processes

    • Shows a summary of the kernel and system processes, which generally have minimal impact on performance.

• CPU Utilization, Database Connections, and Freeable Memory are just the regular items provided by RDS Metrics in CloudWatch.