Ensure enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances is enabled

Error: Enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances is disabled

Bridgecrew Policy ID: BC_AWS_LOGGING_28
Checkov Check ID: CKV_AWS_118
Severity: LOW

Enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances is disabled

Description

Enabling enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances can provide you with additional visibility into the performance and health of your database instances. With enhanced monitoring, you can retrieve real-time performance metrics for your RDS instances at intervals of 1 second, rather than the standard interval of 60 seconds. This can be particularly useful for troubleshooting performance issues, identifying trends in resource utilization, and detecting potential issues before they become problems.

Fix - Buildtime

Terraform

  • Resource: aws_db_instance
  • Argument: monitoring_interval
resource "aws_db_instance" "default" {
  allocated_storage    = 10
  ...
+ monitoring_interval  = 5
  }