Archive and replay Amazon EventBridge events - Amazon EventBridge
Step 1: Create a Lambda functionStep 2: Create archiveStep 3: Create ruleStep 4: Send test eventsStep 5: Replay eventsStep 6: Clean up your resources

Archive and replay Amazon EventBridge events

You can use EventBridge to route events to specific AWS Lambda functions using rules.

In this tutorial, you’ll create a function to use as the target for the EventBridge rule using the Lambda console. Then, you'll create an archive and a rule that'll archive test events using the EventBridge console. Once there are events in that archive, you'll replay them.

Step 1: Create a Lambda function

First, create a Lambda function to log the events.

To create a Lambda function:

  1. Open the AWS Lambda console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/.

  2. Choose Create function.

  3. Choose Author from scratch.

  4. Enter a name and description for the Lambda function. For example, name the function LogScheduledEvent.

  5. Leave the rest of the options as the defaults and choose Create function.

  6. On the Code tab of the function page, double-click index.js.

  7. Replace the existing JavaScript code with the following code:

    'use strict';

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
    console.log('LogScheduledEvent');
    console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
    callback(null, 'Finished');
};

  8. Choose Deploy.

Step 2: Create archive

Next, create the archive that will hold all the test events.

To create an archive

  1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Archives.

  3. Choose Create archive.

  4. Enter a name and description for the archive. For example, name the archive ArchiveTest.

  5. Leave the rest of the options as the defaults and choose Next.

  6. Choose Create archive.

Step 3: Create rule

Create a rule to archive events that are sent to the event bus.

To create a rule

  1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Rules.

  3. Choose Create rule.

  4. Enter a name and description for the rule. For example, name the rule ARTestRule.

    A rule can't have the same name as another rule in the same Region and on the same event bus.

  5. For Event bus, choose the event bus that you want to associate with this rule. If you want this rule to match events that come from your account, select default. When an AWS service in your account emits an event, it always goes to your account’s default event bus.

  6. For Rule type, choose Rule with an event pattern.

  7. Choose Next.

  8. For Event source, choose Other.

  9. For Event pattern, enter the following:

    {
  "detail-type": [
    "customerCreated"
  ]
}

  10. Choose Next.

  11. For Target types, choose AWS service.

  12. For Select a target, choose Lambda function from the drop-down list.

  13. For Function, select the Lambda function that you created in the Step 1: Create a Lambda function section. In this example, select LogScheduledEvent.

  14. Choose Next.

  15. Choose Next.

  16. Review the details of the rule and choose Create rule.

Step 4: Send test events

Now that you've set up the archive and the rule, we'll send test events to make sure the archive is working correctly.

Note

It can take some time for events to get to the archive.

To send test events (console)

  1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Event buses.

  3. In the Default event bus tile, choose Actions, Send events.

  4. Enter an event source. For example, TestEvent.

  5. For Detail type, enter customerCreated.

  6. For Event detail, enter {}.

  7. Choose Send.

Step 5: Replay events

Once the test events are in the archive you can replay them.

To replay archived events (console)

  1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Replays.

  3. Choose Start new replay.

  4. Enter a name and description for the replay. For example, name the replay ReplayTest.

  5. For Source, select the archive you created in the Step 2: Create archive section.

  6. For Replay time frame, do the following.

    1. For Start time, select the date you sent test events and a time before you sent them. For example, 2021/08/11 and 08:00:00.

    2. For End time, select the current date and time. For example, 2021/08/11 and 09:15:00.

  7. Choose Start Replay.

Step 6: Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them. By deleting AWS resources that you are no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS account.

To delete the Lambda function(s)

  1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

  2. Select the function(s) that you created.

  3. Choose Actions, Delete.

  4. Choose Delete.

To delete the EventBridge archives(s)

  1. Open the Archives page of the EventBridge console.

  2. Select the archive(s) you created.

  3. Choose Delete.

  4. Enter the archive name and choose Delete.

To delete the EventBridge rule(s)

  1. Open the Rules page of the EventBridge console.

  2. Select the rule(s) that you created.

  3. Choose Delete.

  4. Choose Delete.