
Learn how to monitor Amazon Redshift Serverless workloads and control costs through the console, CloudWatch, system views, usage limits, query monitoring rules, and alarms to keep expenses predictable.


<div><p>This article explains how to monitor Amazon Redshift Serverless workloads and configure cost controls through three monitoring methods and guardrails.</p><ul><li>Monitor via Redshift Serverless console with query history, database performance, and resource usage views</li><li>Use CloudWatch metrics for centralized monitoring across accounts and regions</li><li>Query system views for granular workload performance and RPU usage analysis</li><li>Set base capacity between 8-512 RPUs to control compute resources</li><li>Configure usage limits with daily, weekly, or monthly RPU-hour thresholds</li><li>Implement query monitoring rules to stop poorly performing queries automatically</li><li>Create CloudWatch alarms on key metrics: ComputeSeconds, ComputeCapacity, DatabaseConnections, DataStorage</li><li>Enable SNS notifications for proactive cost and performance alerts</li></ul><p>The post provides practical guidance for monitoring Redshift Serverless and establishing cost controls through limits, rules, and alarms.</p></div>


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