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Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

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This article announces lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL in CloudWatch Database Insights Advanced mode.

  • Identifies root causes of lock contention issues within minutes
  • Visualizes blocking and waiting sessions relationships in console
  • Persists historical locking data for 15 months
  • Eliminates need for manual queries or application log analysis
  • Available in all public AWS Regions with vCPU-based pricing

CloudWatch Database Insights now streamlines PostgreSQL lock contention troubleshooting with visual diagnostics and historical data retention.

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