Monitoring DB load with Performance Insights on Amazon RDS
Important
AWS has announced the end-of-life date for Performance Insights: November 30, 2025. After this date, Amazon RDS will no longer support the Performance Insights console experience, flexible retention periods (1-24 months), and their associated pricing.
We recommend that you upgrade any DB instances using the paid tier of Performance Insights to the Advanced mode of Database Insights before November 30, 2025. If you take no action, your DB instances will default to using the Standard mode of Database Insights. With Standard mode of Database Insights, you might lose access to performance data history beyond 7 days and might not be able to use execution plans and on-demand analysis features in the Amazon RDS console. After November 30, 2025, only the Advanced mode of Database Insights will support execution plans and on-demand analysis.
For information about upgrading to the Advanced mode of Database Insights, see Turning on the Advanced mode of Database Insights for Amazon RDS. Note that the Performance Insights API will continue to exist with no pricing changes. Performance Insights API costs will appear under CloudWatch alongside Database Insights charges in your AWS bill.
With Database Insights, you can monitor database load for your fleet of databases and analyze and troubleshoot performance at scale.
For more information about Database Insights, see Monitoring Amazon RDS databases with CloudWatch Database Insights.
For pricing information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing
Performance Insights expands on existing Amazon RDS monitoring features to illustrate and help you analyze your database performance. With the Performance Insights dashboard, you can visualize the database load on your Amazon RDS DB instance load and filter the load by waits, SQL statements, hosts, or users. For information about using Performance Insights with Amazon DocumentDB, see Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide.
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