DBS-C01 Management and Operations Practice Question
A database administrator needs to monitor the number of connections to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. Which Amazon CloudWatch metric should be used?
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DatabaseConnections
The DatabaseConnections metric in CloudWatch shows the number of current connections to the DB instance.
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NetworkThroughput
Why it's wrong here
NetworkThroughput measures network traffic, not connections.
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DatabaseConnections
Why this is correct
DatabaseConnections is the correct metric for monitoring the number of connections.
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ConnectionAttempts
Why it's wrong here
ConnectionAttempts is not a standard RDS metric.
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ActiveTransactions
Why it's wrong here
ActiveTransactions shows the number of active transactions, not connections.
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