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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

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Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243108
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kate Gawron Kate Gawron
Profile icon Kate Gawron

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview 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

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