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# AWS Amazon RDS instances Enhanced Monitoring is disabled misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                                           |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_AWS\_118                          |
| Category - Subcategory | Monitoring - Performance Monitoring       |
| Provider               | AWS                                       |
| Severity               | LOW                                       |
| Framework              | CloudFormation, Terraform, Terraform Plan |

## Impact

This rule ensures that enhanced monitoring is enabled for Amazon RDS instances. Enhanced monitoring provides detailed metrics in real-time for the operating system that your DB instance runs on, which helps in identifying and diagnosing performance issues. This rule checks whether the `MonitoringInterval` property is set to a valid value for enabling enhanced monitoring.

## How to Fix

To fix this issue, ensure that the `MonitoringInterval` property in the `AWS::RDS::DBInstance` resource is set to a valid value (1, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 seconds).

## Example: \[source,go]

Resources: MyRDSInstance: Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance Properties: DBInstanceIdentifier: example-instance

* MonitoringInterval: 60 ...

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