Amazon Aurora DB - Incident Detection and Response Alarming Best Practices
The intention of this documentation is to provide the building blocks to create critical CloudWatch alarms which are fit for onboarding to Incident Detection and Response. It contains specific alarm best practices for AWS Services.
Overview
Here we have included Alarm Best Practices for Amazon Aurora Databases part of Relational Database Service (RDS) that Incident Detection and Response (IDR) customers can refer to. They can use these as a starting point in creating alarms fit to be onboarded to IDR. There are also AWS recommended alarms available, which customers may make use of.
The CloudWatch alarm best practices provided on this page are intended solely as general guidelines to assist you in configuring alarms for the Incident Detection and Response service. The final selection, configuration, and implementation of CloudWatch alarms should be tailored to the unique requirements of your environment, workloads, and operational needs. The recommendations we provide do not guarantee comprehensive coverage or detection of all issues, incidents, or outages. For more information on detailed configuration, we recommend consulting with your technical team.
Recommended Metrics to Monitor
Additional Resources
For additional information on Monitoring metrics in an Amazon Aurora cluster please refer to the following documentation: Amazon Aurora cluster metrics
For additional information on Cloudwatch metrics and dimensions for Aurora please refer to the following documentation: Aurora CloudWatch Metrics
For additional information on general recommended best practice alarming for Aurora please see the following documentation: CloudWatch - Recommended alarms for Aurora DB
For additional information on Aurora Storage and auto scaling feature, please refer to the following documentation: Amazon Aurora storage
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