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Monitor your sql rds instance using CloudWatch

11th August 2020 By John McCormack Leave a Comment

Monitor your SQL RDS instance using CloudWatch

This is a short video on how to monitor your sql rds instance using CloudWatch. Cloudwatch is the built in tool from AWS which can be used to monitor many different resources. Here, we specifically talk about RDS for SQL Server. I also talk you through how to set up alarms to notify you when things go bad, such as high CPU alarms.

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John McCormack is an experienced SQL DBA with extensive knowledge of the two largest public clouds: AWS and Azure.

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