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aws rds metricset

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aws rds metricset

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The rds metricset of aws module allows you to monitor your AWS RDS service. rds metricset fetches a set of values from Amazon RDS Metrics. Amazon RDS sends metrics and dimensions to Amazon CloudWatch every minute.

AWS Permissions

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Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS RDS metrics.

cloudwatch:GetMetricData
ec2:DescribeRegions
rds:DescribeDBInstances
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard

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The aws rds metricset comes with a predefined dashboard.

metricbeat aws rds overview

Configuration example

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- module: aws
  period: 60s
  metricsets:
    - rds
  access_key_id: '<access_key_id>'
  secret_access_key: '<secret_access_key>'
  session_token: '<session_token>'

Fields

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For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "aws": {
        "rds": {
            "cpu": {
                "total": {
                    "pct": 0.999999999997575
                }
            },
            "database_connections": 0,
            "db_instance": {
                "arn": "arn:aws:rds:ap-southeast-1:627959692251:db:database-1",
                "class": "db.t2.micro",
                "identifier": "database-1",
                "status": "available"
            },
            "disk_queue_depth": 0.00006666888896296543,
            "disk_usage": {
                "bin_log.bytes": 2752
            },
            "free_storage.bytes": 20402475008,
            "freeable_memory.bytes": 441335808,
            "latency": {
                "read": 0,
                "write": 0.0002909090909090909
            },
            "read_io.ops_per_sec": 0,
            "swap_usage.bytes": 1167360,
            "throughput": {
                "network_receive": 570.7618714269047,
                "network_transmit": 3228.0614030701536,
                "read": 0,
                "write": 3754.7918263942133
            },
            "transactions": {},
            "write_io.ops_per_sec": 0.40002000100005003
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "627959692251",
            "name": "elastic-test"
        },
        "availability_zone": "ap-southeast-1a",
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "ap-southeast-1"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "aws.rds",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "rds",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    }
}
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