So, it looks like OEM is available, either inside of RDS, or outside using a plugin, but it requires the diagnostics pack to be of any use, which requires at least SE for AWR functionality. I need to clarify that this RDS instance is a "License Included" SE1 instance, so AWR isn't even turned on. At this point, I am looking for a solution that doesn't require AWR, and possibly mimics it. So are there any agent-less monitoring tools out there that does this? I know of Tanel's Session Snapper script, but I would have to build some mechanism around it to make my own AWR of sorts, since its an ad-hoc tool. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Michael Wehrle <michaelw436@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > All, I am working on migrating some oracle databases into Amazon RDS. Is > there a good monitoring solution out there for these instances? The > provided cloudwatch is minimal, and not useful at all in terms of > performance metrics, wait events, top sql, top activity. OEM seems out of > the question, since its an agent-based tool, and with RDS you give up > access to the server where the db resides. > > Cloudwatch monitors the following for RDS: > > CPU,Storage,Memory,Swap,Connection Count,I/O,Replag > > I need to be able to see some more useful stuff. At this point, I only see > that I may have to use statspack or something similar to it, but thats all > manual work. A GUI for my db customers would be ideal. > > Suggestions? > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l