PMM Grafana "template init failed" error while adding OS Metrics for AWS instance.

[chaitanya.tondlekar]

Hello we are trying to Add OS metrics for AWS RDS MySQL instance on PMM.
But it is giving "Template init failed " and “metrics error” while seeing.

But i am able to view all MySQL metrics and QAN for that particular AWS server.

I want to view OS metrics for AWS Instance and referred below link for the same.
[url]https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-monitoring-and-management/amazon-rds.html[/url]
but still facing the error.

Let me know if any of the steps left out while configuring.

[Michael_Coburn]

Hi chaitanya.tondlekar , it sounds like you successfully configured the RDS MySQL node - can you share a screenshot of which graphs you expect to have working but are not? Be aware that RDS doesn’t expose the same level of OS metrics that a bare metal or EC2 instance would, so you should only expect to see the RDS dashboard functional. I’ve provided a link to our PMM Demo RDS MySQL 5.6 server, do you have populated graphs like this?

[url]https://pmmdemo.percona.com/graph/dashboard/db/amazon-rds-aurora-mysql-metrics?var-region=us-east-1&var-instance=rds-mysql56[/url]
[url]Percona Monitoring and Management

[chaitanya.tondlekar]

Hello Michael,

While selecting the Amazon Aurora/ Amazon RDS dashboard, its giving me the error attached in snapshot.

I have installed pmm server through docker on Ubuntu instance 16.04 which is an AWS EC2 instance.

Also second image for pmm-mysql-rds, the “sample test” instance is RDS. You can see that OS metrics is not available but MySQL metrics is available.

Please help me on this.

[chaitanya.tondlekar]

hello Michael Coburn can you help me on this as i have commented with the snapshots ?

[kame]

It was the same situation. running pmm-server on ec2 in my case.
i assigned ‘CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess’ role to ec2 instance, then it works.

credential option ignored on ec2 instance.