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Asynch workers (Are there many 'no retry' jobs that failed? Are there 'retry' jobs that retry forever?)
Throttling
Client logs (Note: look at metrics with no dimensions; select All to quickly see if there are many hits.)
AWS RDS
prod-<stack>-db
CPU (use 1 min resolution to check for spikes)
Free Storage Space (MB)
If there are symptoms of performance problems: Write Throughput and Read Throughput (Note: This shows the load bet. the network and the database.)
Now repeat the review for the Table database:
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CPU (use 1 min resolution to check for spikes)
Free Storage Space (MB)
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If there are symptoms of performance problems: Write Throughput and Read Throughput
AWS EC-2 page > Running instances
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