Monitoring snapshot exports for Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service

Monitoring snapshot exports for Amazon RDS

You can monitor DB snapshot exports using the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API.

To monitor DB snapshot exports

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots.

  3. To view the list of snapshot exports, choose the Exports in Amazon S3 tab.

  4. To view information about a specific snapshot export, choose the export task.

To monitor DB snapshot exports using the AWS CLI, use the describe-export-tasks command.

The following example shows how to display current information about all of your snapshot exports.

aws rds describe-export-tasks

{
    "ExportTasks": [
        {
            "Status": "CANCELED",
            "TaskEndTime": "2019-11-01T17:36:46.961Z",
            "S3Prefix": "something",
            "ExportTime": "2019-10-24T20:23:48.364Z",
            "S3Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket",
            "PercentProgress": 0,
            "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:AWS_Region:123456789012:key/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY",
            "ExportTaskIdentifier": "anewtest",
            "IamRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/export-to-s3",
            "TotalExtractedDataInGB": 0,
            "TaskStartTime": "2019-10-25T19:10:58.885Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:AWS_Region:123456789012:snapshot:parameter-groups-test"
        },
{
            "Status": "COMPLETE",
            "TaskEndTime": "2019-10-31T21:37:28.312Z",
            "WarningMessage": "{\"skippedTables\":[],\"skippedObjectives\":[],\"general\":[{\"reason\":\"FAILED_TO_EXTRACT_TABLES_LIST_FOR_DATABASE\"}]}",
            "S3Prefix": "",
            "ExportTime": "2019-10-31T06:44:53.452Z",
            "S3Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket1",
            "PercentProgress": 100,
            "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:AWS_Region:123456789012:key/2Zp9Utk/h3yCo8nvbEXAMPLEKEY",
            "ExportTaskIdentifier": "thursday-events-test", 
            "IamRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/export-to-s3",
            "TotalExtractedDataInGB": 263,
            "TaskStartTime": "2019-10-31T20:58:06.998Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:AWS_Region:123456789012:snapshot:rds:example-1-2019-10-31-06-44"
        },
        {
            "Status": "FAILED",
            "TaskEndTime": "2019-10-31T02:12:36.409Z",
            "FailureCause": "The S3 bucket edgcuc-export isn't located in the current AWS Region. Please, review your S3 bucket name and retry the export.",
            "S3Prefix": "",
            "ExportTime": "2019-10-30T06:45:04.526Z",
            "S3Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket2",
            "PercentProgress": 0,
            "KmsKeyId": "arn:aws:kms:AWS_Region:123456789012:key/2Zp9Utk/h3yCo8nvbEXAMPLEKEY",
            "ExportTaskIdentifier": "wednesday-afternoon-test",
            "IamRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/export-to-s3",
            "TotalExtractedDataInGB": 0,
            "TaskStartTime": "2019-10-30T22:43:40.034Z",
            "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:AWS_Region:123456789012:snapshot:rds:example-1-2019-10-30-06-45"
        }
    ]
}

To display information about a specific snapshot export, include the --export-task-identifier option with the describe-export-tasks command. To filter the output, include the --Filters option. For more options, see the describe-export-tasks command.

To display information about DB snapshot exports using the Amazon RDS API, use the DescribeExportTasks operation.

To track completion of the export workflow or to initiate another workflow, you can subscribe to Amazon Simple Notification Service topics. For more information on Amazon SNS, see Working with Amazon RDS event notification.