# Ignore rdsadmin DB checks for AWS RDS monitoring with PMM 2.x

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/ignore-rdsadmin-db-checks-for-aws-rds-monitoring-with-pmm-2-x/21056>\
**Category:** PostgreSQL\
**Tags:** pmm, percona, closed-no-reply, postgresql\
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/ignore-rdsadmin-db-checks-for-aws-rds-monitoring-with-pmm-2-x/21056 "2023-03-30T08:55:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/ignore-rdsadmin-db-checks-for-aws-rds-monitoring-with-pmm-2-x/21056/1 "2023-03-30T08:55:22Z")

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I wanted to avoid checking rdsadmin database in Percona monitoring. Although pmm user has assigned rds\_superuser privilege, I keep on seeing the below errors both in pmm-agent.log and RDS cloudwatch logs. Where to disable this rdsadmin db checks please?

ERRO caller=postgres\_exporter.go:742 level=error err=“Error opening connection to database (postgres://pmm:PASSWORD\_REMOVED@XXXXXXXXX.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/rdsadmin?connect\_timeout=1&sslmode=disable): pq: pg\_hba.conf rejects connection for host "10.xx.xx.xx", user "pmm", database "rdsadmin", no encryption” agentID=/agent\_id/63axxxxxxxxx component=agent-process type=postgres\_exporter  
ERRO ts= caller=postgres\_exporter.go:742 level=error err=“Error opening connection to database (postgres://pmm:PASSWORD\_REMOVED@xxxxxxxxx.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/rdsadmin?connect\_timeout=1&sslmode=disable): pq: pg\_hba.conf rejects connection for host "10.xx.xx.xx", user "pmm", database "rdsadmin", no encryption” agentID=/agent\_id/63aafxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx component=agent-process type=postgres\_exporter