Performance Insights not enabled on RDS instance
- Severity
- Low
- Service
- RDS
- Check ID
- RDS_NO_PERFORMANCE_INSIGHTS
What this check finds
AWS RDS Performance Insights provides a database performance dashboard to detect bottlenecks and slow queries. Without it, diagnosing performance issues requires third-party tooling.
Passing looks like: RDS Performance Insights enabled.
How to fix it
Enable Performance Insights on the instance.
AWS CLI
aws rds modify-db-instance --db-instance-identifier DB_ID --enable-performance-insights --performance-insights-retention-period 7 --apply-immediately
Names in capitals are placeholders for your own resource. Review a command before you run it.
AWS console
RDS → Modify → Performance Insights.
Compliance
This is an operational hygiene check. It flags something worth tidying rather than a control an auditor asks for, so it is not mapped to a compliance framework.
Checked on every scan
KloudLytics runs this check each time it scans a connected AWS account, through a read-only role, and lists every affected resource with its region. On Pro and Business a fix is written for the specific resource rather than the general case above. The exact access it needs
More RDS checks
- HighAurora/RDS cluster storage is not encrypted at rest
- HighRDS automated backups are disabled
- HighRDS instance does not have automatic minor version upgrades enabled
- HighRDS instance has zero database connections for 7 days
- HighRDS instance storage is not encrypted at rest
- HighRDS security group allows broad CIDR ingress (broader than /16)
- HighRDS snapshot is public
- MediumAurora/RDS cluster has automated backups disabled