Availability of Aurora metrics in the Amazon RDS console - Amazon Aurora
Aurora metrics available in the Last Hour viewAurora metrics available in specific casesAurora metrics that aren't available in the console

Availability of Aurora metrics in the Amazon RDS console

Not all metrics provided by Amazon Aurora are available in the Amazon RDS console. You can view these metrics using tools such as the AWS CLI and CloudWatch API. Also, some metrics in the Amazon RDS console are either shown only for specific instance classes, or with different names and units of measurement.

Aurora metrics available in the Last Hour view

You can view a subset of categorized Aurora metrics in the default Last Hour view in the Amazon RDS console. The following table lists the categories and associated metrics displayed in the Amazon RDS console for an Aurora instance.

Category Metrics
SQL

ActiveTransactions

BlockedTransactions

BufferCacheHitRatio

CommitLatency

CommitThroughput

DatabaseConnections

DDLLatency

DDLThroughput

Deadlocks

DMLLatency

DMLThroughput

LoginFailures

ResultSetCacheHitRatio

SelectLatency

SelectThroughput
System

AuroraReplicaLag

AuroraReplicaLagMaximum

AuroraReplicaLagMinimum

CPUCreditBalance

CPUCreditUsage

CPUUtilization

FreeableMemory

FreeLocalStorage (This doesn't apply to Aurora Serverless v2.)

NetworkReceiveThroughput
Deployment

AuroraReplicaLag

BufferCacheHitRatio

ResultSetCacheHitRatio

SelectThroughput

Aurora metrics available in specific cases

In addition, some Aurora metrics are either shown only for specific instance classes, or only for DB instances, or with different names and different units of measurement:

  • The CPUCreditBalance and CPUCreditUsage metrics are displayed only for Aurora MySQL db.t2 instance classes and for Aurora PostgreSQL db.t3 instance classes.

  • The following metrics that are displayed with different names, as listed:

    Metric Display name

    AuroraReplicaLagMaximum

    Replica lag maximum

    AuroraReplicaLagMinimum

    Replica lag minimum

    DDLThroughput

    DDL

    NetworkReceiveThroughput

    Network throughput

    VolumeBytesUsed

    [Billed] Volume bytes used

    VolumeReadIOPs

    [Billed] Volume read IOPS

    VolumeWriteIOPs

    [Billed] Volume write IOPS

  • The following metrics apply to an entire Aurora DB cluster, but are displayed only when viewing DB instances for an Aurora DB cluster in the Amazon RDS console:

    • VolumeBytesUsed

    • VolumeReadIOPs

    • VolumeWriteIOPs

  • The following metrics are displayed in megabytes, instead of bytes, in the Amazon RDS console:

    • FreeableMemory

    • FreeLocalStorage

    • NetworkReceiveThroughput

    • NetworkTransmitThroughput

  • The following metrics apply to an Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster with Aurora Optimized Reads:

    • AuroraOptimizedReadsCacheHitRatio

    • FreeEphemeralStorage

    • ReadIOPSEphemeralStorage

    • ReadLatencyEphemeralStorage

    • ReadThroughputEphemeralStorage

    • WriteIOPSEphemeralStorage

    • WriteLatencyEphemeralStorage

    • WriteThroughputEphemeralStorage

Aurora metrics that aren't available in the console

The following Aurora metrics aren't available in the Amazon RDS console:

  • AuroraBinlogReplicaLag

  • DeleteLatency

  • DeleteThroughput

  • EngineUptime

  • InsertLatency

  • InsertThroughput

  • NetworkThroughput

  • Queries

  • UpdateLatency

  • UpdateThroughput