You're reading from AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming an AWS Certified Database specialist

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

IT Certification

Author (1):

Kate Gawron

View More author details

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS

2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals

4. Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure

5. Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design

6. Chapter 4: Relational Database Service

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora

8. Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB

9. Chapter 7: Redshift and DocumentDB

10. Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream

11. Chapter 9: Amazon ElastiCache

12. Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security

13. Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service

14. Chapter 11: Database Task Automation

15. Chapter 12: AWS Database Security

16. Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization

17. Chapter 13: CloudWatch and Logging

18. Chapter 14: Backup and Restore

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

20. Part 5: Assessment

21. Chapter 16: Exam Practice

22. Chapter 17: Answers

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Overview of CloudWatch and logging

CloudWatch is the primary monitoring and logging service offered by AWS. It acts as a data and metrics repository storing all of your RDS monitoring metrics in near real time. CloudWatch can generate graphs, allow you to download raw values into several different formats, trigger alarms and alerts, call AWS Lambda functions, and allow you to read log files from multiple databases at once.

CloudWatch metrics can be viewed graphically, both via the RDS and CloudWatch dashboards. It also offers full Application Programming Interface (API) and AWS CLI integration, allowing you to use other tools, such as Amazon QuickSight, to view and analyze the data as required. The metrics you can view from the RDS dashboard are more limited but offer a clear and quick overview of your database health. The following figure shows some of the metrics available via the RDS dashboard:

Figure 13.1 – RDS dashboard CloudWatch metrics

You...