Additional metrics are available but an AWS Lambda is required to submit the metrics to Datadog. The higher granularity and additional required services may result in additional AWS. RDS enables PostgreSQL users to easily implement high-availability deployments, which we’ll explore in further detail later in this post. It also provides the option to set up automated database snapshots and point-in-time recovery if you should ever need to restore a database instance to an earlier state.
In the next part of this series, we’ll show you how to use Datadog to automatically query PostgreSQL statistics from your RDS instances, visualize them in a customizable, out-of-the-box dashboar and analyze RDS PostgreSQL performance alongside more than 3other technologies. We’ll also show you how to deploy Datadog’s distributed tracing and APM so you can optimize and troubleshoot applications that query data from your RDS PostgreSQL database instances. Installing the Datadog Agent on your ECinstance. Once you have installed the Agent on your server, and set up the server to connect to your PostgreSQL database on RDS (consult Part for instructions), you are ready to configure the Agent to forward PostgreSQL metrics to Datadog. As explained in Part , RDS provides you with several valuable metrics that apply to MySQL, Postgres , SQL Server, or any of the other supported RDS database engines.