--- title: "AWS RDS dashboard | Grafana Cloud documentation" description: "Monitor Amazon RDS instances and Aurora clusters in Cloud Provider Observability" --- > For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt). # AWS RDS dashboard The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) dashboard in Cloud Provider Observability shows [CloudWatch metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-cloudwatch.html) for DB instances and Aurora clusters in the following tabs: - **Overview** - **Aurora** - **Rightsizing** To open the dashboard, go to **Observability > Cloud provider > AWS > AWS RDS**. ## View DB instances at a high level The **Overview** tab provides a high-level look at DB instances across your accounts and regions within a selected time frame. At the top of the page, tables highlight instances that may need attention: - **CPU >85% instances** lists instances with high CPU utilization. - **ReadIOPS >200 instances** lists instances with elevated read I/O. Summary stats show **DB instances** and **Clusters** counts, along with **Average Burst Balance** across instances. The **DB fleet overview** table lists instances with sortable metrics that include CPU utilization, read and write latency, read and write IOPS, replica lag, burst balance, swap usage, and EBS balance percentages. Default columns also include **Account ID**, **Instance ID**, **Cluster**, **Region**, **Job**, and tag fields. When an instance belongs to an Aurora cluster, the **Cluster** column shows the cluster name as a link. Click the cluster name to open the Aurora cluster drilldown for that cluster. Use the search box to filter by job, account, region, or instance. Refine the view with **Datasource**, **Job**, **Account**, **Region**, and **DB Instance** filters, and adjust the time range as needed. ## Monitor Aurora clusters The **Aurora** tab monitors Aurora clusters across your accounts and regions. If panels show no data, confirm that CloudWatch metrics are configured for `AWS/RDS` and that tags are enabled. Click **Necessary metrics** in the banner to view the metrics required for the dashboard. Use **Datasource**, **Job**, **Account**, **Region**, and **DB Cluster** filters to scope the view. Search by job, account, region, or cluster to find specific clusters quickly. ### Review the cluster overview table The **Cluster overview** table summarizes current storage, capacity, and I/O metrics for Aurora clusters. Columns include: - **Account ID** - **Cluster** (links to the cluster drilldown) - **Region** - **Job** - **Capacity (avg ACUs)** and **Capacity (max ACUs)** - **Volume Used (avg)** - **Read IOPs (avg)** and **Write IOPs (avg)** ### Explore cluster metrics over time Below the table, time series panels show Aurora cluster metrics for the selected filters and time range. Each panel includes an **Explore** button to open the underlying query. Panels on the **Aurora** tab include: - **Serverless Database Capacity**: Number of Aurora Capacity Units allocated to each cluster (average and maximum). - **ACU Utilization**: Percentage of allocated capacity units actively in use. - **Database Connections**: Total active connections across all instances in each cluster. - **Deadlocks**: Average number of deadlocks per second. - **Buffer Cache Hit Ratio**: Percentage of read requests served from the buffer cache. - **Commit Latency**: Average time to complete a commit operation. - **Temp Storage IOPs**: I/O operations on local temporary storage. Aurora Serverless v2 only. - **Temp Storage Throughput**: Bytes per second transferred to or from local temporary storage. Aurora Serverless v2 only. ## Drill into cluster detail From the **Cluster overview** table on the **Aurora** tab, click a cluster name to open a drilldown page scoped to that cluster. You can also reach the drilldown from the **Cluster** column on the **Overview** tab. The cluster drilldown shows time series panels for a single cluster, including: - **Serverless Database Capacity**: Capacity units allocated to the cluster over time (average and maximum). - **ACU Utilization**: Percentage of allocated capacity units in use. - **Database Connections**: Total active connections to the cluster. - **Deadlocks**: Average number of deadlocks per second. - **Volume Bytes Used**: Total storage consumed by the shared Aurora volume for the cluster. - **Volume IOPs**: Read and write I/O operations on the shared Aurora storage volume. - **Buffer Cache Hit Ratio**: Percentage of read requests served from the buffer cache. - **Commit Latency**: Average time to complete a commit operation. - **Temp Storage IOPs** and **Temp Storage Throughput**: Local temporary storage metrics. Aurora Serverless v2 only. Refine the drilldown with **Datasource**, **Job**, **Account**, and **Region** filters. ## Drill into instance detail From the **DB fleet overview** table on the **Overview** tab, click an **Instance ID** or **Job** link to open an instance drilldown page for that DB instance. The instance drilldown shows CloudWatch metrics for the selected instance within your time range. To customize which metrics appear on instance drilldown pages, refer to [Customize drilldown metrics](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/configure-dashboards-and-views/customize-drilldown-metrics/). For preconfigured dashboards that include drilldown information for RDS instances, Cloud Provider Observability integrates with [Database Observability](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/introduction/). Refer to [Add cloud provider integrations](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/configure/monitor-multiple-databases/#aws-rds--aurora) for setup configuration. ## View resources for optimization On the **Rightsizing** tab, review DB instance utilization to identify underused instances or instances with high utilization. ## Troubleshoot missing data RDS pages and panels require specific CloudWatch metrics to display data correctly. If columns or panels show no data, try the following steps. 1. On the **Aurora** tab, click **Necessary metrics** in the informational banner to view the metrics required for the dashboard. 2. Navigate to the **Configuration Details** tab for your CloudWatch metrics scrape job. 3. Click **Edit** next to the scrape job you want to change. 4. Expand the metrics details for `AWS/RDS`. 5. Click **Reset to defaults** to restore the metrics required for RDS dashboards. 6. Click **Save service settings**. Aurora-specific panels on the **Aurora** tab and cluster drilldown rely on cluster-level metrics such as `ServerlessDatabaseCapacity`, `ACUUtilization`, `VolumeBytesUsed`, `VolumeReadIOPs`, `VolumeWriteIOPs`, `BufferCacheHitRatio`, `CommitLatency`, `Deadlocks`, `TempStorageIOPs`, and `TempStorageThroughput`. Temp storage panels apply to Aurora Serverless v2 only. ## Next steps - Refer to [Preconfigured dashboards and alerts](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/metric-dashboards/) for [RDS alerts](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/metric-dashboards/#aws-rds) and [installation steps](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/metric-dashboards/#install-aws-preconfigured-dashboards-and-alerts). - Refer to [Services](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/services/#awsrds) for the default CloudWatch metrics collected for `AWS/RDS`. - Refer to [Configure CloudWatch metric scrape](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/aws/cloudwatch-metrics/config-cw-metric-scrape/) to set up or update metric collection.