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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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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

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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