Monitoring metrics in an Aurora DB cluster

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Viewing cluster status and recommendations

• Note Aurora also uses another status called maintenance status, which is shown in the Maintenance column of the Amazon RDS console. This value indicates the status of any maintenance patches that need to be applied to a DB cluster. Maintenance status is independent of DB cluster status. For more information about maintenance status, see Applying updates for a DB cluster.

• Note Amazon RDS also uses another status called maintenance status, which is shown in the Maintenance column of the Amazon RDS console. This value indicates the status of any maintenance patches that need to be applied to a DB instance. Maintenance status is independent of DB instance status. For more information about maintenance status, see Applying updates for a DB cluster.

Analyzing performance with DevOps Guru for RDS

• Important We recommend that you test any changes on a test instance before modifying a production instance. In this way, you understand the impact of the change.