# Monitoring DB load with Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights on Amazon Aurora
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Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands on existing  Amazon Aurora monitoring features to illustrate and help you analyze your cluster performance. With the Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights dashboard, you can visualize the database load on your Amazon Aurora cluster 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 Aurora](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 Aurora 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 Aurora](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)