--- title: Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports... description: Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on EC2, in addition to RDS and Aurora. Using the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-managed-postgresql-getthqapb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL | daily.dev og:description: Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on EC2, in addition to RDS and Aurora. Using the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-managed-postgresql-getthqapb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/geTthqAPb.png og:image:alt: Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on EC2, in addition to RDS and Aurora. Using the CloudWatch agent, teams can collect health and performance data such as database load, wait events, query-level statistics, and host metrics, viewing all databases in one fleet console. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights monitor self-managed PostgreSQL running on EC2? Yes, CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Aurora. The CloudWatch agent collects health and performance data, and the database appears in the Database Insights fleet view with live database load, wait event analysis, query-level statistics, and host metrics, available across all AWS Commercial Regions. _Teams unifying database observability across managed and self-managed postgresql fleets can track such updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands anomaly detection in on-demand analysis](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-expands-anomaly-detection-in-on-demand-analysis-n8crbsdpy) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services](https://daily.dev/posts/using-cloudwatch-database-insights-to-troubleshoot-query-performance-from-calling-services-7te5whq9n) · AWS Database Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon RDS and Aurora with Database Insights](https://daily.dev/posts/cross-account-and-cross-region-monitoring-for-amazon-rds-and-aurora-with-database-insights-sk94ho9c2) · AWS Database Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-managed-postgresql-getthqapb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-managed-postgresql-getthqapb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-now-supports-self-managed-postgresql-getthqapb"},"datePublished":"2026-09-01T21:07:37.294Z","dateModified":"2026-09-03T20:06:37.795Z","description":"Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on EC2, in addition to RDS and Aurora. 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