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Tag: HAQM Cloudwatch Events
Simplify analysis of AWS CloudTrail data leveraging HAQM CloudWatch machine learning and advanced capabilities
AWS CloudTrail tracks user and API activities across AWS environments for governance and auditing purposes and allows customers to centralize a record of these activities. Customers have the option to send AWS CloudTrail logs to HAQM CloudWatch that simplifies and streamlines the analysis and monitoring of AWS CloudTrail recorded activities. HAQM CloudWatch anomaly detection allows […]
Use HAQM EventBridge rules to run AWS Systems Manager automation in response to CloudWatch alarms
Since its launch in 2009, HAQM CloudWatch has become the cloud-native choice for a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view […]
Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to resolve operational tasks
OpsCenter provides a central location where operations engineers and IT professionals can view, investigate, and resolve operational work items (OpsItems) related to AWS resources. AWS Systems Manager Automation simplifies common maintenance and deployment tasks for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances and other AWS resources. You can use this capability to build automations to […]
Using AWS Config custom resources to track any resource on AWS
AWS Config is a powerful service you can use to track infrastructure resources and simplify compliance. AWS Config continuously monitors and records your resource configurations. It also allows you to use AWS Config rules to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired state. You can use its remediation actions to address noncompliant resources and […]
Customize HAQM CloudWatch alarm notifications to your local time zone – Part 1
This two-part series discusses how to customize HAQM CloudWatch alarm notifications to your local time zone. Part 1 covers customizing using CloudWatch Events rule. Part 2 covers customizing using HAQM SNS. You can use HAQM CloudWatch to set alarms and automate actions based on predefined thresholds or machine learning algorithms that identify anomalous behavior in […]
Build a scheduler as a service with HAQM CloudWatch Events, HAQM EventBridge, and AWS Lambda
There are multiple ways to build a scheduler as a service in AWS. In this blog post, we provide step-by-step instructions for building a scheduler as a service with HAQM CloudWatch Events and HAQM EventBridge with AWS Lambda. We also demonstrate how to build a dynamic API scheduler using EventBridge and Lambda. CloudWatch Events deliver […]
Use Systems Manager Automation documents to manage instances and cut costs off-hours
Cut costs by minimizing infrastructure when it’s not under heavy use, for example turning off EC2 and RDS instances nights and weekends. In this post you will learn how to do this using Systems Manager Automation Documents, State Manager, and CloudWatch Events.
How to get notified on specific Lambda function error patterns using CloudWatch
This post demonstrates how to automate alert notifications for specific AWS Lambda function errors using an HAQM CloudWatch log subscription. CloudWatch Logs let you invoke a Lambda function when a log entry matches a pattern. HAQM CloudWatch alarms are used to notify when an error occurs with a Lambda function; this notification does not give […]
7 AWSome ways to use AWS Chatbot
AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and HAQM Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS Support cases. There are many different ways to […]
Using lifecycle events to track AWS Control Tower actions and trigger automated workflows
Many customers that I work with are creating and provisioning new accounts using AWS Control Tower. They prefer an AWS native solution for creating their environment knowing that it will be based upon documented AWS Best Practices. As customers scale their account creation, there exists an opportunity to use additional Control Tower features to perform […]