# Monitoring DB load with Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights on Amazon RDS
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Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands on existing Amazon RDS monitoring features to illustrate and help you analyze your database performance. With the Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights dashboard, you can visualize the database load on your Amazon RDS DB instance load and filter the load by waits, SQL statements, hosts, or users.

For information about using Performance Insights with Amazon DocumentDB, see *[Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/performance-insights.html)*.

**Topics**
+ [Overview of Database Insights on Amazon RDS](USER_PerfInsights.Overview.md)
+ [Enabling and disabling detailed per-query and database counter metrics](USER_PerfInsights.Enabling.md)
+ [Overview of the Performance Schema for Database Insights in Amazon RDS for MariaDB or MySQL](USER_PerfInsights.EnableMySQL.md)
+ [Configuring access policies for Database Insights](USER_PerfInsights.access-control.md)
+ [Viewing Database Insights proactive recommendations](USER_PerfInsights.InsightsRecommendationViewDetails.md)
+ [Retrieving metrics with the Performance Insights API for Amazon RDS](USER_PerfInsights.API.md)
+ [Logging Performance Insights calls using AWS CloudTrail](USER_PerfInsights.CloudTrail.md)
+ [Performance Insights API and interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink)](pi-vpc-interface-endpoints.md)