Advanced observability and troubleshooting with Amazon RDS event monitoring pipelines
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This article provides a comprehensive tutorial on creating an advanced RDS event monitoring solution using AWS services like EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, and SES. The solution automatically generates detailed email notifications when RDS instances experience availability-impacting events.
- Architecture includes EventBridge rule, SQS queue, Lambda function, and email notification via SES
- Generates comprehensive email reports including:
- Event details and description
- Instance configuration information
- CloudWatch metrics for 10 minutes prior to event
- Top SQL queries from Performance Insights
- CloudTrail API events
- Supports multiple RDS event categories like failover, recovery, and availability
- Provides customizable monitoring for database instances
- Includes edge case considerations and potential limitations
The solution helps database administrators quickly understand and troubleshoot database availability events by providing a comprehensive, automated reporting mechanism.
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