---
title: "AWS collaboration: RDS enhanced metrics"
description: "Amazon RDS enhanced metrics are now available in your infrastructure dashboards via a collaboration between AWS and Datadog. Read more!"
author: "K Young"
date: 2016-03-03
tags: ["infrastructure monitoring", "database monitoring", "aws", "amazon rds", "aws rds", "database"]
blog_type_id: the-monitor
locale: en
---

Over the last month, we worked with AWS engineering to expand the RDS integration between Datadog and Amazon. As a result of that collaboration, AWS asked us to [write an article](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/using-enhanced-rds-monitoring-with-datadog "AWS Datadog guest post about monitoring enhanced RDS metrics") recommending Datadog for Amazon RDS's enhanced metrics.

AWS is a great partner to work with and we're thrilled they chose Datadog to help them ship advanced monitoring to their RDS customers.

## RDS enhanced metrics

Instructions for sending enhanced metrics to Datadog are included in the post on the [official AWS blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/using-enhanced-rds-monitoring-with-datadog "AWS Datadog guest post about monitoring enhanced RDS metrics").

![RDS enhanced metrics](https://web-assets.dd-static.net/42588/1776358366-rds-enhanced-metrics-aws-rds-enhanced-monitoring-datadog.png)
*Out of the box Datadog dashboard for AWS RDS enhanced metrics*