Database Insights adds support for customization of its metrics dashboard
CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for customization of its metrics dashboard, allowing users to add or remove any database metric to the default dashboard provided. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health.
Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your applications, your databases, and the operating systems on which they run into a unified view in the console. Using its pre-built dashboards, recommended alarms, and automated telemetry collection, you can monitor the health of your database fleets and use a guided troubleshooting experience to drill down to individual instances for root-cause analysis. Now users can customize the Database Insights preset metrics dashboard by incorporating or removing metrics according to their preferences.
To customize the default metrics dashboard, navigate to the Database Instance Dashboard. From there, navigate to Database Telemetry and click on the Metrics tab. The new “Create widget” button that allows you to choose from a list of database, operating system, and CloudWatch metrics to add. You can also edit or remove existing metric widgets.
The ability to customize the metrics dashboard is now available for all Aurora and RDS database engines that Database Insights supports and in all regions where Database Insights is available, at no additional cost. For further information, visit the Database Insights documentation.