CloudWatch Alarms Manager¶
Easy way to create default CloudWatch Alarms.
CWAM is creating default alarms associated with default metrics for different kind of AWS resources.
Requirements¶
- Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, or 3.5
- An AWS account
CWAM¶
Resources supported¶
- ELB
- ALB
- RDS
- Kinesis
- ElasticCache
Templates samples¶
- https://github.com/instacart/cwam/blob/master/templates/alb.template.yml
- https://github.com/instacart/cwam/blob/master/templates/rds.template.yml
- https://github.com/instacart/cwam/blob/master/templates/kinesis.template.yml
- https://github.com/instacart/cwam/blob/master/templates/elastic_cache.template.yml
Human interaction¶
At any time, a human can modify an alarm value created by CWAM.
To make sure CWAM is not overriding that value again, the alarm description
field needs to be updated with a string different from Created by Script.
CLI¶
CLI Authentication¶
Via environment variables:
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="aws_access_key_id"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="aws_access_secret_key"
$ export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="aws_session_token"
$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1"
$ cwam --conf ~/.cwam/conf.yml elb create -t /path/to/template.yml
Via (–conf/-c) option:
Edit ~/.cwam/conf.yml
aws:
aws_access_key_id: aws_access_key_id
aws_access_secret_key: aws_access_secret_key
aws_session_token: aws_session_token
aws_default_region: aws_default_region
$ cwam --conf ~/.cwam/conf.yml elb create -t /path/to/template.yml
Via CLI options:
$ cwam ----aws-access-key-id aws_access_key_id \
--aws-access-secret-key aws_access_secret_key \
--aws-session-token aws_session_token \
--aws_default_region us-east-1 elb create -t /path/to/template.yml