Monitoring Amazon RDS

[andrey.seryukov]

Hi guys,

Just wondering if you have any advice on monitoring amazon RDS instance with zabbix. RDS is a managed linux running MySQL with no ssh access. I don't think RDS instances have even SNMP enabled.

It seems that External Check items (see 19.9 External Checks) may be an acceptable answer, depending on the number of items required.

Does anyone here have anything like this configured? Any agent-less mysql hosts? Do you mind sharing your experience?

Thanks you!

[mighdoll]

re: mysql RDS monitoring

Did you find any approaches to monitoring amazon RDS mysql instances?

Hi guys,

Just wondering if you have any advice on monitoring amazon RDS instance with zabbix. RDS is a managed linux running MySQL with no ssh access. I don't think RDS instances have even SNMP enabled.

It seems that External Check items (see 19.9 External Checks) may be an acceptable answer, depending on the number of items required.

Does anyone here have anything like this configured? Any agent-less mysql hosts? Do you mind sharing your experience?

Thanks you!

[anthonysomerset]

i'm looking into this too, the only thing i can think of is to add user parameters on the local zabbix server and set it up as belong to the zabbix server

obviously you would either have to abstract the template (and user parameters) so that you can reuse the code for multiple RDS instances

only downsides to this is that you need to have at least one zabbix agent running somewhere to act as a proxy and its reliant on this agent being available all the time - hence the suggestion to use the zabbix server itself