# Viewing metrics in the Amazon RDS console
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Amazon RDS integrates with Amazon CloudWatch to display a variety of RDS DB instance metrics in the RDS console. For descriptions of these metrics, see [Metrics reference for Amazon RDS](metrics-reference.md).

For your DB instance, the following categories of metrics are monitored:
+ **CloudWatch** – Shows the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for RDS that you can access in the RDS console. You can also access these metrics in the CloudWatch console. Each metric includes a graph that shows the metric monitored over a specific time span. For a list of CloudWatch metrics, see [Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon RDS](rds-metrics.md).
+ **Enhanced monitoring** – Shows a summary of operating-system metrics when your RDS DB instance has turned on Enhanced Monitoring. RDS delivers the metrics from Enhanced Monitoring to your Amazon CloudWatch Logs account. Each OS metric includes a graph showing the metric monitored over a specific time span. For an overview, see [Monitoring OS metrics with Enhanced Monitoring](USER_Monitoring.OS.md). For a list of Enhanced Monitoring metrics, see [OS metrics in Enhanced Monitoring](USER_Monitoring-Available-OS-Metrics.md).
+ **OS Process list** – Shows details for each process running in your DB instance.
+ **Database Insights** – Opens the Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights dashboard for a DB instance. For an overview, see [Monitoring DB load with Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights on Amazon RDS](USER_PerfInsights.md). For a list of metrics, see [Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon RDS Performance Insights](USER_PerfInsights.Cloudwatch.md).

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights provides a consolidated view of database load and CloudWatch metrics for your DB instance. For more information, see [Monitoring Amazon RDS databases with CloudWatch Database Insights](USER_DatabaseInsights.md).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).