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Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon RDS

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Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service

You can filter Amazon RDS metrics data by using any dimension in the following table.

Dimension Filters the requested data for . . .
DBInstanceIdentifier

A specific DB instance.
DatabaseClass

All instances in a database class. For example, you can aggregate metrics for all instances that belong to the database class db.r5.large.
EngineName

The identified engine name only. For example, you can aggregate metrics for all instances that have the engine name postgres.
SourceRegion

The specified Region only. For example, you can aggregate metrics for all DB instances in the us-east-1 Region.

Related resources

Amazon RDS API Reference
AWS CLI commands for Amazon RDS
SDKs & Tools 

Related resources

Amazon RDS API Reference
AWS CLI commands for Amazon RDS
SDKs & Tools 
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