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Monitoring Amazon RDS with Amazon SES

Integrating Amazon RDS and Amazon SES with your monitoring system

To integrate Amazon RDS and Amazon SES with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Amazon RDS and Amazon SES and how that can support your monitoring system.

What is Amazon RDS?

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service you can use to set up and manage relational databases in the AWS Cloud. It provides a cost-efficient way to leverage fully managed and scalable industry-standard relational databases without the need to look after everyday database administration tasks.

When you subscribe to Amazon RDS, you get your own cloud-based server, CPU, memory, storage and IOPS, all bundled together. You can set up, manage, and scale each of these services independently. If you need more CPU or more storage, you can quickly allocate them. Amazon RDS manages your backups, software patching, plus it includes automatic failure detection and recovery. You can use different database flavors, including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

You can configure Amazon RDS for high availability and failover by setting up a primary instance and a synchronous secondary instance. Plus, you can control who can access your RDS databases by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) services to assign users permissions.

 

Amazon RDS is fully integrated with Amazon CloudWatch, allowing you to monitor your database's health and performance. By subscribing to Amazon RDS events, you can be notified about changes to a DB instance, DB parameter group, DB security group or DB snapshot.

More importantly, with Metricfire, you can turbocharge your Amazon RDS monitoring services. By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the Metricfire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when a database issue is detected.

What is Amazon SES?

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a flexible and scalable email service that allows developers to send or receive mail from within any application, enabling you to interact with customers at scale. It supports several email use cases, including marketing, transactional, or mass email communications. You can configure your email service in minutes using the Amazon SES console, APIs, or SMTP.

With Amazon SES, you can send trigger-based messages from your application directly to your customers, such as purchase confirmations or password resets. SES comes with customized content and email templates, such as special offers and newsletters, to help you promote your products and services. You can also send bulk messages, including notifications and announcements, to large email lists.

 

With Amazon Cloudwatch, you can monitor email statistics, including email deliveries and bounces, to help you measure each email campaign's effectiveness. Additional insights, like email open or click-through rates, measure how engaged your customers are in your email communications.

Using the reputation dashboard, which includes account performance insights and anti-spam feedback, you can maximize your email deliverability. 

With Metricfire, you can turbocharge your Simple Email Service monitoring services. By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the Metricfire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when your email service is doing something it shouldn't.

How to integrate Amazon RDS and Amazon SES with your monitoring system

To integrate Amazon RDS and Amazon SES with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Amazon RDS and Amazon SES and get Amazon RDS and Amazon SES interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

What is MetricFire?

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. We enable you to use Hosted Graphite and aesthetic custom dashboards to visualize your metrics so you can understand what is happening.

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MetricFire offers users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of popular open-source monitoring software services: Graphite and popular dashboards. Plugins for many other open-source projects are preconfigured, such as StatsD, collectd, and Kubernetes. You get all these within a hosted environment as a single product. Not only does MetricFire fit well into the infrastructure monitoring use-case, such as network monitoring and server monitoring, but we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.

         

Through this hosted environment, MetricFire boosts the unique features of open-source projects to give you more functionality than the original products. Below are some of the MetricFire features at a glance: 

  • Cloud Monitoring

  • Hosted Graphite

  • Dashboards


The key thing to remember is that Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is more than just Graphite. Our Hosted Graphite product actually adds data dimensionality and better data storage.

       

The benefits of MetricFire are:

  • Simple, low-cost pricing
    A structured pricing model based on unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allow you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric.


  • Easy-to-use dashboards
    Easily share your dashboards with clients for free.


  • Responsive alerting
    Alert notification integrations PagerDuty, Slack, email, and webhooks.


  • Freedom of customization
    Custom metrics through your code.


  • Fantastic customer support
    Highly available support is provided by engineers for engineers to get you set up quickly.


  • Enterprise-ready
    Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment. 
      
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“As MetricFire scales effortlessly, we can push and store more metrics than we really need today but might need tomorrow. This increases our depth of understanding of the systems that we run and heads off any future problems.”
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