How to collect RDS MySQL metrics

This article discusses how to monitor MySQL on Amazon RDS by collecting both standard RDS metrics and native MySQL metrics. It explains three ways to collect CloudWatch metrics: using the AWS Management Console, command line interface, or a monitoring tool with CloudWatch integration. Additionally, it outlines four methods for collecting native MySQL metrics: querying server status variables, querying the performance schema and sys schema, using the MySQL Workbench GUI, and employing a MySQL monitoring tool. The article concludes by stating that in the next part of this series, it will demonstrate how to use Datadog to collect, visualize, and set alerts on metrics from both RDS and MySQL.