How to collect Aurora metrics

This article discusses how to monitor Amazon Aurora using CloudWatch and collect both RDS metrics and database engine metrics. It provides detailed instructions for accessing these metrics through the AWS Management Console, command line interface, and monitoring tools with a CloudWatch integration. Additionally, it covers querying server status variables, performance schema, sys schema, MySQL Workbench GUI, and using MySQL-compatible monitoring tools to collect database engine metrics. The article concludes by stating that in the next part of this series, it will demonstrate how to set up comprehensive Aurora monitoring with Datadog.