AWS provides a wide range of monitoring solutions for your Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora instances, such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, and AWS CloudTrail. Amazon RDS event monitoring pipelines make troubleshooting operational events like reboots, errors, and failovers more efficient. In this post, we present a solution to get a head start on troubleshooting by sending an email after a reboot or failover with the last 10 minutes of important CloudWatch metrics, top queries, and related API calls performed on the instance.