Amazon DocumentDB's Performance Insights enables visualizing and analyzing database workloads to identify performance bottlenecks, apply optimizations, and verify improvements.

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<p>This article explains how to use Amazon DocumentDB's Performance Insights feature to analyze workload performance and identify bottlenecks caused by specific queries, hosts, databases, or applications.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Enabling Performance Insights on an existing Amazon DocumentDB cluster</li>
<li>Setting up an AWS Cloud9 environment to connect to the cluster and load sample data</li>
<li>Running Python scripts to generate sample workloads on the cluster</li>
<li>Using Performance Insights to visualize database load and identify the root cause (e.g., a slow query)</li>
<li>Creating an index to improve the performance of the slow query</li>
<li>Verifying the performance improvement using Performance Insights</li>
<li>Cleaning up resources to avoid ongoing costs</li>
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Analyze Amazon DocumentDB workloads with Performance Insights

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