Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) (built-in)

For information about differences between built-in services and other services, see Migrate from AWS built-in services to cloud services.

Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.

Prerequisites

To enable monitoring for this service, you need:

Any version of ActiveGate in both Dynatrace SaaS and Managed deployments.

For role-based access (whether in a SaaS or Managed deployment), you need an ActiveGate installed on an Amazon EC2 host.
An updated AWS monitoring policy to include the additional AWS services.
To update the AWS IAM policy, use the JSON below, containing the monitoring policy (permissions) for all cloud services.

1{
2  "Version": "2012-10-17",
3  "Statement": [
4    {
5      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
6      "Effect": "Allow",
7      "Action": [
8        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities",
9        "apigateway:GET",
10        "apprunner:ListServices",
11        "appstream:DescribeFleets",
12        "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
13        "athena:ListWorkGroups",
14        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
15        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
16        "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
17        "cloudhsm:DescribeClusters",
18        "cloudsearch:DescribeDomains",
19        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
20        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
21        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
22        "codebuild:ListProjects",
23        "datasync:ListTasks",
24        "dax:DescribeClusters",
25        "directconnect:DescribeConnections",
26        "dms:DescribeReplicationInstances",
27        "dynamodb:ListTables",
28        "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
29        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
30        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
31        "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
32        "ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests",
33        "ec2:DescribeTransitGateways",
34        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
35        "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
36        "ecs:ListClusters",
37        "eks:ListClusters",
38        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
39        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentResources",
40        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
41        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
42        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
43        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
44        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
45        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
46        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
47        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
48        "elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
49        "elastictranscoder:ListPipelines",
50        "es:ListDomainNames",
51        "events:ListEventBuses",
52        "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams",
53        "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
54        "gamelift:ListFleets",
55        "glue:GetJobs",
56        "inspector:ListAssessmentTemplates",
57        "kafka:ListClusters",
58        "kinesis:ListStreams",
59        "kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
60        "kinesisvideo:ListStreams",
61        "lambda:ListFunctions",
62        "lambda:ListTags",
63        "lex:GetBots",
64        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
65        "mediaconnect:ListFlows",
66        "mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints",
67        "mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingConfigurations",
68        "mediapackage:ListChannels",
69        "mediatailor:ListPlaybackConfigurations",
70        "opsworks:DescribeStacks",
71        "qldb:ListLedgers",
72        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
73        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
74        "rds:DescribeEvents",
75        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
76        "redshift:DescribeClusters",
77        "robomaker:ListSimulationJobs",
78        "route53:ListHostedZones",
79        "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints",
80        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
81        "sagemaker:ListEndpoints",
82        "sns:ListTopics",
83        "sqs:ListQueues",
84        "storagegateway:ListGateways",
85        "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
86        "swf:ListDomains",
87        "tag:GetResources",
88        "tag:GetTagKeys",
89        "transfer:ListServers",
90        "workmail:ListOrganizations",
91        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"
92      ],
93      "Resource": "*"
94    }
95  ]
96}

If you don't want to add permissions to all services, and just select permissions for certain services, consult the table below. The table contains a set of permissions that are required for all services (All monitored Amazon services) and, for each cloud service, a list of optional permissions specific to that service.

Name	Additional permissions
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority	"acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
All monitored Amazon services	"cloudwatch:GetMetricData", "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics", "cloudwatch:ListMetrics", "sts:GetCallerIdentity", "tag:GetResources", "tag:GetTagKeys", "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"
Amazon MQ
Amazon API Gateway	"apigateway:GET"
AWS App Runner	"apprunner:ListServices"
Amazon AppStream	"appstream:DescribeFleets"
AWS AppSync	"appsync:ListGraphqlApis"
Amazon Athena	"athena:ListWorkGroups"
Amazon Aurora	"rds:DescribeDBClusters"
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling	"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups"
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in)	"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups"
AWS Billing
Amazon Keyspaces
AWS Chatbot
Amazon CloudFront	"cloudfront:ListDistributions"
AWS CloudHSM	"cloudhsm:DescribeClusters"
Amazon CloudSearch	"cloudsearch:DescribeDomains"
AWS CodeBuild	"codebuild:ListProjects"
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Connect
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	"eks:ListClusters"
AWS DataSync	"datasync:ListTasks"
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)	"dax:DescribeClusters"
Amazon Database Migration Service	"dms:DescribeReplicationInstances"
Amazon DocumentDB	"rds:DescribeDBClusters"
AWS Direct Connect	"directconnect:DescribeConnections"
Amazon DynamoDB	"dynamodb:ListTables"
Amazon DynamoDB (built-in)	"dynamodb:ListTables", "dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource"
Amazon EBS	"ec2:DescribeVolumes"
Amazon EBS (built-in)	"ec2:DescribeVolumes"
Amazon EC2 API
Amazon EC2 (built-in)	"ec2:DescribeInstances"
Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet	"ec2:DescribeSpotFleetRequests"
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)	"ecs:ListClusters"
Amazon ECS ContainerInsights	"ecs:ListClusters"
Amazon ElastiCache (EC)	"elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters"
AWS Elastic Beanstalk	"elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments"
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)	"elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems"
Amazon Elastic Inference
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)	"elasticmapreduce:ListClusters"
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)	"es:ListDomainNames"
Amazon Elastic Transcoder	"elastictranscoder:ListPipelines"
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (built-in)	"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth"
Amazon EventBridge	"events:ListEventBuses"
Amazon FSx	"fsx:DescribeFileSystems"
Amazon GameLift	"gamelift:ListFleets"
AWS Glue	"glue:GetJobs"
Amazon Inspector	"inspector:ListAssessmentTemplates"
AWS Internet of Things (IoT)
AWS IoT Analytics
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka	"kafka:ListClusters"
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics	"kinesisanalytics:ListApplications"
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose	"firehose:ListDeliveryStreams"
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams	"kinesis:ListStreams"
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams	"kinesisvideo:ListStreams"
Amazon Lambda	"lambda:ListFunctions"
AWS Lambda (built-in)	"lambda:ListFunctions", "lambda:ListTags"
Amazon Lex	"lex:GetBots"
AWS Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in)	"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth"
Amazon CloudWatch Logs	"logs:DescribeLogGroups"
AWS Elemental MediaConnect	"mediaconnect:ListFlows"
Amazon MediaConvert	"mediaconvert:DescribeEndpoints"
Amazon MediaPackage Live	"mediapackage:ListChannels"
Amazon MediaPackage Video on Demand	"mediapackage-vod:ListPackagingConfigurations"
Amazon MediaTailor	"mediatailor:ListPlaybackConfigurations"
Amazon VPC NAT Gateways	"ec2:DescribeNatGateways"
Amazon Neptune	"rds:DescribeDBClusters"
AWS OpsWorks	"opsworks:DescribeStacks"
Amazon Polly
Amazon QLDB	"qldb:ListLedgers"
Amazon RDS	"rds:DescribeDBInstances"
Amazon RDS (built-in)	"rds:DescribeDBInstances", "rds:DescribeEvents", "rds:ListTagsForResource"
Amazon Redshift	"redshift:DescribeClusters"
Amazon Rekognition
AWS RoboMaker	"robomaker:ListSimulationJobs"
Amazon Route 53	"route53:ListHostedZones"
Amazon Route 53 Resolver	"route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints"
Amazon S3	"s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
Amazon S3 (built-in)	"s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Jobs
Amazon SageMaker Endpoint Instances	"sagemaker:ListEndpoints"
Amazon SageMaker Endpoints	"sagemaker:ListEndpoints"
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Amazon SageMaker Processing Jobs
Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs
AWS Service Catalog
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)	"sns:ListTopics"
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)	"sqs:ListQueues"
AWS Systems Manager - Run Command
AWS Step Functions
AWS Storage Gateway	"storagegateway:ListGateways"
Amazon SWF	"swf:ListDomains"
Amazon Textract
AWS IoT Things Graph
Amazon Transfer Family	"transfer:ListServers"
AWS Transit Gateway	"ec2:DescribeTransitGateways"
Amazon Translate
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS API Usage
AWS Site-to-Site VPN	"ec2:DescribeVpnConnections"
Amazon WAF Classic
Amazon WAF
Amazon WorkMail	"workmail:ListOrganizations"
Amazon WorkSpaces	"workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"

Example of JSON policy for one single service.

1{
2  "Version": "2012-10-17",
3  "Statement": [
4          {
5                  "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
6                  "Effect": "Allow",
7                  "Action": [
8                          "apigateway:GET",
9                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
10                          "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
11                          "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
12                          "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
13                          "tag:GetResources",
14                          "tag:GetTagKeys",
15                          "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones"
16                  ],
17                  "Resource": "*"
18          }
19      ]
20}

In this example, from the complete list of permissions you need to select

"apigateway:GET" for Amazon API Gateway
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData", "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics", "cloudwatch:ListMetrics", "sts:GetCallerIdentity", "tag:GetResources", "tag:GetTagKeys", and "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones" for All monitored Amazon services.

To disable monitoring of built-in services you need:

ActiveGate version 1.245+, Dynatrace version 1.247+

Endpoint	Service
`autoscaling.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (built-in), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
`elasticbeanstalk.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Elastic Beanstalk (built-in), AWS Elastic Beanstalk
`lambda.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Lambda (built-in), Amazon Lambda
`elasticloadbalancing.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Application and Network Load Balancer (built-in), AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (built-in)
`dynamodb.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon DynamoDB (built-in), Amazon DynamoDB
`ec2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon EBS (built-in), Amazon EC2 (built-in), Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet, Amazon VPC NAT Gateways, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-to-Site VPN
`rds.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon RDS (built-in), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon RDS
`s3.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon S3 (built-in)
`acm-pca.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority
`apigateway.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon API Gateway
`apprunner.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS App Runner
`appstream2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon AppStream
`appsync.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS AppSync
`athena.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Athena
`cloudfront.amazonaws.com`	Amazon CloudFront
`cloudhsmv2.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS CloudHSM
`cloudsearch.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon CloudSearch
`codebuild.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS CodeBuild
`datasync.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS DataSync
`dax.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
`dms.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Database Migration Service
`directconnect.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Direct Connect
`ecs.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon ECS ContainerInsights
`elasticfilesystem.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
`eks.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
`elasticache.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon ElastiCache (EC)
`elastictranscoder.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Elastic Transcoder
`es.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)
`events.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon EventBridge
`fsx.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon FSx
`gamelift.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon GameLift
`glue.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Glue
`inspector.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Inspector
`kafka.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka
`models.lex.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Lex
`logs.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon CloudWatch Logs
`api.mediatailor.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon MediaTailor
`mediaconnect.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Elemental MediaConnect
`mediapackage.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon MediaPackage Live
`mediapackage-vod.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon MediaPackage Video on Demand
`opsworks.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS OpsWorks
`qldb.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon QLDB
`redshift.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Redshift
`robomaker.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS RoboMaker
`route53.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Route 53
`route53resolver.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Route 53 Resolver
`api.sagemaker.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon SageMaker Endpoints, Amazon SageMaker Endpoint Instances
`sns.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
`sqs.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
`storagegateway.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	AWS Storage Gateway
`swf.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon SWF
`transfer.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon Transfer Family
`workmail.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon WorkMail
`workspaces.<REGION>.amazonaws.com`	Amazon WorkSpaces

Enable monitoring

To learn how to enable service monitoring, see Enable service monitoring.

View service metrics

You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the AWS account page or on your Dashboards page.

View metrics on the AWS account page

To view metrics on the AWS account page

In the Dynatrace menu, go to Infrastructure > AWS
Choose AWS account you want to check metrics for.
Select Service box. Metrics for the selected service are visible under the infographic in the service section.

View metrics on the Dashboard

You can also create your own dashboard. For more information on how to create dashboards, go to Create and edit Dynatrace dashboards

Built-in services specifics

This is a built-in service. It's monitored out-of-the-box once a new AWS integration instance is created. For built-in services, all metrics are recommended (changing configuration is not possible).

Example of AWS built-in monitoring service

example of AWS builtin monitoring service

Available metrics

Metric key	Name	Unit	Aggregations	Monitoring consumption
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.cpu.usage	RDS CPU usage %	Percent (%)	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.latency.read	RDS read latency	Second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.latency.write	RDS write latency	Second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.memory.freeable	RDS freeable memory	Byte	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.memory.swap	RDS swap usage	Byte	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.net.rx	RDS network received throughput	Byte/second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.net.tx	RDS network transmitted throughput	Byte/second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.ops.read	RDS read IOPS	Per second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.ops.write	RDS write IOPS	Per second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.throughput.read	RDS read throughput	Byte/second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.throughput.write	RDS write throughput	Byte/second	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.connections	RDS connections	Count	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.free	RDS free storage space %	Percent (%)	autoavgmaxmin	DDUs
builtin:cloud.aws.rds.restarts	RDS restarts	Count	autovalue	DDUs