How to collect Aurora metrics

This post provides a comprehensive guide on how to collect and visualize metrics from Amazon Aurora's MySQL-compatible edition using CloudWatch, as well as four methods for collecting database engine metrics: querying server status variables, the performance schema, the sys schema, and using a MySQL-compatible monitoring tool. The post explains how to set up automated alerts when metric thresholds are crossed and provides an overview of how to use Datadog in Part 3 of this series.