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Kate Gawron
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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In this chapter, we learned about how to use CloudWatch to monitor your databases running in AWS. CloudWatch offers a powerful and highly customizable setup of tools, such as dashboards, alarms, and anomaly detection, to finely tune your alerts and monitoring across your database estate.

We learned how to use Enhanced Monitoring to be able to closely monitor the health and performance of the virtual machines that run our RDS databases to help diagnose performance issues more accurately.

Finally, we learned how to use Performance Insights to graphically see ongoing and real-time performance metrics at the query level to help identify the root cause of any database performance issues and areas that could be tuned.

Accurate and comprehensive monitoring of your databases is critical to ensure there are no outages and that performance is maintained, and CloudWatch is one of the best tools to do so. In the exam, there will be a large number of questions about performance...

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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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