title: How to configure Prometheus to use AWS RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL as backing store?
body: <p>I am using prometheus-operator in Kubernetes and am using EBS volumes as backing store through VolumeClaimTemplates. I would like to instead use Amazon RDS PostgreSQL as a backing store so that I wouldn't have to worry about running out of storage and monitoring storage etc.</p>
  
  <p>I came across remote storage adapters for InfluxDB, Graphite and OpenstDB <a href="https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/tree/master/documentation/examples/remote_storage/remote_storage_adapter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> but they don't have an adapter for PostgreSQL or MySQL. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any experience making prometheus backup samples to PostgreSQL/MySQL in production environments?</p>
  
  <p>I came across prometheus-postgresql-adapter <a href="https://github.com/timescale/prometheus-postgresql-adapter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> but am not sure how it will work with Amazon RDS. If you have any pointers to make it work with RDS, that too will be much appreciated.</p>