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ApsaraDB RDS:View resource and engine monitoring

Last Updated:Aug 25, 2026

ApsaraDB RDS provides a wide range of performance metrics. You can use the ApsaraDB RDS console to view resource and engine monitoring data for your instance.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the ApsaraDB RDS console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Instances. Select the region where your instance is located, and then click the instance ID.

  3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Monitoring and Alerts.

  4. On the Standard Monitoring tab, click Resource Monitoring or Engine Monitoring and select a time range to view the data. The following table describes the available metrics.

    Category

    Metric

    Description

    Resource Monitoring

    IOPS

    The number of I/O requests per second for the data disk and log disk. Unit: count/s.

    CPU utilization and memory usage

    The percentage of CPU and memory resources that the instance uses.

    Disk space

    The amount of disk space that the instance uses, which includes:

    • Disk Space Used

    • Data Space Used

    • Log Space Used

    • Temporary File Space Used

    • System File Space Used

    Unit: MB.

    Total connections

    The number of active and total connections to the instance.

    Network traffic

    The rate of inbound and outbound network traffic for the instance. Unit: KB/s.

    Engine Monitoring

    TPS/QPS

    The average number of transactions and SQL statement executions per second.

    InnoDB buffer pool read hit ratio, usage ratio, and dirty block ratio

    The read hit ratio, usage ratio, and the percentage of dirty blocks in the InnoDB buffer pool.

    InnoDB read/write volume

    The amount of data that InnoDB reads from and writes to storage per second. Unit: KB/s.

    InnoDB buffer pool read/write frequency

    The number of read and write operations per second that InnoDB performs on its buffer pool.

    InnoDB log reads, writes, and fsync() operations

    The number of reads from, physical writes to, log write requests, and completed fsync() write operations on the log file per second.

    Temporary tables created on hard disk

    The number of temporary tables created on disk during SQL statement execution.

    MySQL_COMDML

    The number of SQL statement executions per second, which includes:

    • Insert

    • Delete

    • Insert_Select

    • Replace

    • Replace_Select

    • Select

    • Update

    MySQL_RowDML

    The number of row-level operations in InnoDB tables per second, which includes the following operations:

    • Rows inserted and updated

    • Rows read and deleted

    MyISAM reads and writes

    The rate of MyISAM read and write operations, including from the key buffer and disk.

    MyISAM key buffer read/write/usage ratio

    The read hit ratio, write hit ratio, and usage ratio of the MyISAM key buffer.