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The Amazon CloudWatch RDS sensor monitors the performance of the Amazon Cloud service Relational Database Service (RDS).

For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.

For a list of metrics that this sensor supports, see section Supported Metrics.

Amazon CloudWatch RDS Sensor

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Remarks

• This sensor requires access rights for Amazon CloudWatch queries. For details, see the Knowledge Base: How do I set permissions for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API key to use certain sensors in PRTG?
• This sensor requires .NET 4.7.2 or later on the probe system.
• This sensor requires credentials for AWS in settings that are higher in the object hierarchy, for example, in the settings of the parent device.
• The minimum scanning interval for this sensor is 15 minutes.
• This sensor supports the IPv6 protocol.

• This sensor has a medium performance impact.

• This sensor only shows the channels for which it receives data from Amazon. You can check the availability of data in your CloudWatch Console on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) website. To know which channels are possible for the various services of this sensor, see section Supported Metrics. If the sensor has not received data from Amazon for more than 6 hours, it shows the Down status.
• Configure notification triggers with a latency of 0 seconds to receive all notifications for this sensor ([...] for at least 0 seconds).
• To know which dimensions you can monitor, see section Supported Dimensions.
• Amazon charges you for each AWS API request that the sensor sends to the Amazon servers. For details, see the Knowledge Base: How much does Amazon charge for using Amazon CloudWatch sensors in PRTG?

Detailed Requirements