RDS performance insight SQL query "other"

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Hi,

I'm trying to investigate high CPU load on my Aurora Postgres cluster. When inspecting the performance insight metrics i can see that it's always an SQL query called "Other" that seem to be the reason for the high consumption. Is there any way to find out more specifically what "Other" is? When inspecting the pg_stat_activity table i can't find any long running queries, or anything other looking suspicious .

Matthis
asked 5 months ago320 views
2 Answers
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Other is just compile of some other minor events, usually they aren't a reason for the problem.

You probably see "CPU" / "Vaccum" / "Lock:" as reason for high CPU utilization. The Load you are seeing as well, might be caused by concurrent sessions, assuming 4CPU database, if you start 8 queries at the same time, you will probably notice some CPU wait/load in the database.

It's hard to give any real insights without more details.

answered 5 months ago
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In Performance Insights, ‘Other’ means that there's not one single item that occupies most of the resource - rather, the collective of "others" is distributing most of the resources among them.

You can also define “Other SQL" as the aggregate amount of queries that weren't enough to make it into the TopN. A high "Other" usually means there were a lot of other queries happening at the time but no particular query significantly impacted database time.

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Deepam
answered 5 months ago

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