AWS Amazon RDS instances Enhanced Monitoring is disabled

Description

This policy ensures that enhanced monitoring is enabled for Amazon RDS instances. Enhanced monitoring provides detailed metrics in real-time for the operating system that your DB instance runs on, which helps in identifying and diagnosing performance issues. This policy checks whether the `MonitoringInterval` property is set to a valid value for enabling enhanced monitoring.

Code Example

resource "aws_db_instance" "default" {
  allocated_storage    = 10
  ...
+ monitoring_interval  = 5
  }

Remediation

Terraform

• Resource: aws_db_instance
• Arguments: monitoring_interval

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0171
Severity	LOW
IaC Type	Cloudformation
Frameworks	Terraform, TerraformPlan, CloudFormation
Checkov ID	CKV_AWS_118

References

• Checkov Rule

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