Configuring AWS Chatbot to send notifications about events in AWS Health - AWS Health
Prerequisites

Configuring AWS Chatbot to send notifications about events in AWS Health

You can receive AWS Health events directly in your chat clients, such as Slack and Amazon Chime. You can use this event to identify recent AWS service issues that might affect your AWS applications and infrastructure. Then, you can sign in to your AWS Health Dashboard to learn more about the update. For example, if you're monitoring for the AWS_EC2_INSTANCE_STOP_SCHEDULED event type in your AWS account, the AWS Health event can appear directly to your Slack channel.

Prerequisites

Before you get started, you must have the following:

  • A chat client configured with AWS Chatbot. You can configure Amazon Chime and Slack. For more information, see Getting started with AWS Chatbot in the AWS Chatbot Administrator Guide.

  • An Amazon SNS topic that you created and to which you're subscribed. If you already have an SNS topic, you can use an existing one. For more information, see Getting started with Amazon SNS in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

To receive AWS Health events with AWS Chatbot

  1. Follow the procedure in Configuring an EventBridge rule to send notifications about events in AWS Health through step 13.

    1. When you finish setting up the event pattern in step 13, add a comma to the last line of the pattern, and add the following line to remove unnecessary chat messages from paginated AWS Health events. See Pagination of AWS Health events on EventBridge.

      "detail.page": ["1"]

    2. When you choose the target in step 14, choose an SNS topic. You will use this same SNS topic in the AWS Chatbot console.

    3. Complete the rest of the procedure to create the rule.

  2. Navigate to the AWS Chatbot console.

  3. Choose your chat client, such as your Slack channel name, and then choose Edit.

  4. In the Notifications - optional section, for Topics, choose the same SNS topic that you specified in step 1.

  5. Choose Save.

    When AWS Health sends an event to EventBridge that matches your rule, the AWS Health event will appear in your chat client.

  6. Choose the event name to see more information in your AWS Health Dashboard.

Example : AWS Health events sent to Slack

The following is an example of two AWS Health events for Amazon EC2 and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region that appear in the Slack channel.

Screenshot of how two AWS Health events appear in a Slack channel.