How should the company identify the source of the problem?

A company has a production environment running on Amazon RDS for SQL Server with an in-house web application as the front end. During the last application maintenance window, new functionality was added to the web application to enhance the reporting capabilities for management. Since the update, the application is slow to respond to some reporting queries.

How should the company identify the source of the problem?
A . Install and configure Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SQL Server. Use a CloudWatch dashboard to identify the root cause.
B. Enable RDS Performance Insights and determine which query is creating the problem.
Request changes to the query to address the problem.
C. Use AWS X-Ray deployed with Amazon RDS to track query system traces.
D. Create a support request and work with AWS Support to identify the source of the issue.

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Answer: B

Explanation:

Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature that helps you quickly assess the load on your database, and determine when and where to take action. Performance Insights allows non-experts to detect performance problems with an easy-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/performance-insights/