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Papertrail can aggregate query logs from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a hosted MySQL database service.
By default, Amazon RDS outputs slow query logs to a table in the RDS instance called mysql.slow_log. If configured, all queries can be logged to mysql.general_log. Here’s more.
Two methods exist to send RDS logs to Papertrail:
To set up the Play app, read the README and watch this video:
Aggregating Amazon RDS query logs in Papertrail
In addition to the client-side filtering covered in the video, Papertrail can filter unnecessary messages. See log filtering.
For setup information, visit rdstail README.
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