Monitoring

You can monitor Amazon DocumentDB using several methods. You can monitor the health and status of your Amazon DocumentDB cluster and your Amazon DocumentDB instances using the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI. Amazon DocumentDB integrates with Amazon CloudWatch and you can monitor performance metrics like CPU utilization, memory, IOPS, and network throughput using Amazon CloudWatch.

Amazon DocumentDB CloudWatch metrics

Amazon DocumentDB tracks the events related to your cluster. You can view the history of the events including details on snapshot creation, failover, instance reboots, and any modifications to your cluster. You can use the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI (describe-events command) to view these event details.

Using Event Subscriptions, you can also sign up to receive notifications for management events that occur on your Amazon DocumentDB clusters, instances, cluster snapshots, and parameter groups. Whenever events occur, Amazon DocumentDB uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to notify the subscriber through supported methods such as an email, a text message, or a call to an HTTP endpoint. With Event Subscriptions you can be notified automatically of events such as the completion of patching, an instance failover, or a parameter group modification. For example, you can use AWS Lambda to process the events of a database instance. Developers can subscribe to over 50 types of events using the AWS Management Console or the CLI.