Splunk App for AWS: Why is the Relational Database Service dashboard not listing Aurora Engines?

[akalyanaraman]

Relational Database Service dashboard within Splunk App for AWS is not listing Aurora Engines within the section named RDS Instance Details. When I looked at the underlying search, it makes use of a macro name "aws-rds-description". This macro is ignoring specifically aurora. Below mentioned is the macro search:

`aws-description-index` source="*:rds_instances" engine != "aurora"

Can someone please let me know why aurora engines are ignored?

Environment details:
Splunk Add-on for AWS : 4.0.0
Splunk App for AWS : 4.2.0

[zliang_splunk]

Hi,

It's because by the time when the RDS dashboard was implemented, there were no aurora metrics found in cloudwatch data collected by the input. As we are seeing the data now, I believe that filter will be soon removed. Before that, you could remove it by rewriting that macro in your local macros.conf file.

Thanks,
//Gimi