# Monitoring RDS for PostgreSQL engine upgrades with events
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When you upgrade the engine version of a RDS for PostgreSQL database, Amazon RDS emits a specific event during each phase of the process. To track the progress of an upgrade, you can view or subscribe to these events.

 For more information about RDS events, see [Monitoring Amazon RDS events](working-with-events.md).

For detailed information about a specific Amazon RDS event that occurs during your engine upgrade, see [Amazon RDS event categories and event messages ](USER_Events.Messages.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).