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AWS RDS Workflow Steps

Available in PagerDuty Runbook Automation Commercial products.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud.

The following RDS plugins are available for PagerDuty Runbook Automation:

Authentication

Follow the instructions outlined in the AWS Plugins Overview for Runbook Automation to authenticate with AWS.

When defining the IAM Role for Runbook Automation, be sure to include the following permissions in the Policy associated with the role:

  • rds:describeDBInstances

RDS Instance Status

The AWS / RDS / Status plugin checks on the status of an existing RDS database instance:

RDS Plugin Output

This can be especially useful when your RDS instance has run out of storage capacity, or when there are other issues with the instance availability.

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Target RDS Instance: The RDS database instance name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Target RDS Region: The AWS region where the RDS instance resides.

See it in Action

This plugin is used in one of the prebuilt Jobs in our Automated Diagnostics Solution.
Try out the Solution to see how this plugin can be used as part of incident-response workflows.

Start RDS Cluster

The AWS / RDS / Start plugin starts an existing RDS database instance.

RDS Start Plugin Output

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Cluster Name: The RDS database cluster name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Region: The AWS region where the RDS cluster resides.

Stop RDS Cluster

The AWS / RDS / Stop plugin stops an existing RDS database cluster.

RDS Stop Cluster

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Cluster Name: The RDS database cluster name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Region: The AWS region where the RDS cluster resides.

Capture RDS Instance Snapshot

The AWS / RDS / Instance / Capture / Snapshot plugin captures a snapshot of an existing RDS database instance.

RDS Snapshot Plugin Output

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Instance Name: The RDS database instance name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Snapshot Name: The name of the snapshot to be created.

Start RDS Instance

The AWS / RDS / Instance / Start plugin starts an existing RDS database instance.

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Instance Name: The RDS database instance name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Region: The AWS region where the RDS instance resides.

Stop RDS Instance

The AWS / RDS / Instance / Stop plugin stops an existing RDS database instance.

Plugin Field Descriptions

  • Instance Name: The RDS database instance name. In AWS, this is the DB identifier.
  • Region: The AWS region where the RDS instance resides.