# How to Add 150 of RDS Instances in PMM
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-150-of-rds-instances-in-pmm/12432
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
**Tags:** pmm, percona
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-150-of-rds-instances-in-pmm/12432 "2021-10-05T23:39:21Z")
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### Author:  [@brianestrada658](https://forums.percona.com/u/brianestrada658)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-150-of-rds-instances-in-pmm/12432/1 "2021-10-05T23:39:21Z")
I need to add 150 RDS instances. Is there a way to add this directly to the underlying Postgres database? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Ceri\_Williams](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ceri_Williams)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-150-of-rds-instances-in-pmm/12432/2 "2021-10-06T07:05:02Z")
Hi @brianestrada658
Welcome to the forum!
I would strongly discourage trying to bypass supported methods, but instead use the [PMM API](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-monitoring-and-management/2.x/details/api.html).
Here is an example of an Ansible task that could be modified to suit your requirements:
```nohighlight
- name: Add RDS server (PMMv2)
uri:
url: "{{ pmm_server_management }}/RDS/Add" method: POST
user: "{{ pmm_username }}" password: "{{ pmm_password }}"
body: | {
"add_node": {
"node_name": {{ inventory_hostname | to_json }},
"node_type": "REMOTE_NODE"
},
"address": {{ ansible_host | to_json }},
"aws_access_key": {{ pmm_aws_access_key_id | to_json }},
"aws_secret_key": {{ pmm_aws_secret_access_key | to_json }},
"disable_basic_metrics": {{ pmm_rds_disable_basic_metrics | bool | to_json }},
"disable_enhanced_metrics": {{ pmm_rds_disable_enhanced_metrics | bool | to_json }},
"disable_query_examples": {{ pmm_rds_disable_query_examples | bool | to_json }},
"engine": "{{ 'DISCOVER_RDS_POSTGRESQL' if 'postgresql' in group_names else 'DISCOVER_RDS_MYSQL' }}",
"instance_id": {{ pmm_rds_host_name | to_json }},
"metrics_mode": "PULL",
"node_name": {{ inventory_hostname | to_json }},
"password": {{ pmm_managed_password | to_json }},
"port": {{ db_port | int | to_json }},
"qan_mysql_perfschema": true,
"qan_postgresql_pgstatements": true,
"rds_exporter": true,
"region": {{ pmm_rds_host_region | to_json }},
"service_name": "{{ inventory_hostname }}-rds",
"skip_connection_check": {{ pmm_client_skip_connection_check | bool | to_json }},
"tablestats_group_table_limit": {{ -1 if pmm_client_disable_tablestats else
pmm_client_disable_tablestats_limit | to_json }},
"tls": {{ pmm_client_use_tls | bool | to_json }},
"tls_skip_verify": {{ pmm_client_skip_tls_verify | bool | to_json }},
"username": {{ pmm_managed_username | to_json }}
} force_basic_auth: yes
status_code:
- 200
- 409 body_format: json
validate_certs: '{{ pmm_validate_certs }}' register: pmm_managed
connection: local no_log: yes
when: ('rds' in group_names)
```
That should give you an idea of where to start.
Cheers,
Ceri
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### Author:  [@brianestrada658](https://forums.percona.com/u/brianestrada658)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-150-of-rds-instances-in-pmm/12432/3 "2021-10-06T20:30:15Z")
Thanks! This is what I was looking for.