AWS announces Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights with support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) 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. Application developers can correlate the impact of database dependencies with the performance and availability of their business-critical applications. This is because they can drill down from the context of their application performance view in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals to the specific dependent database in Database Insights.

You can get started with Database Insights by enabling it on your Aurora clusters using the Aurora service console, AWS APIs, and SDKs. Database Insights delivers database health monitoring aggregated at the fleet level, as well as instance-level dashboards for detailed database and SQL query analysis.

Database Insights is available in all public AWS Regions and applies a new vCPU-based pricing – see pricing page for details. For further information, visit the Database Insights documentation.