Option 1: Send all MediaLive events to an email address

This option shows how to set up to send all events to a single email address. The drawback of this setup is that the email account will receive a large volume of emails. Therefore, we recommend that you don't use this setup in a production environment.

You must perform the following procedure in each Region where channels or multiplexes are running.

Step 1: Create a subscription

Create a subscription to set up a specific email address so that it automatically receives email notifications when any event occurs in MediaLive. You must identify an email recipient for the emails.

In the following procedure, we use the example of "MediaLive_alert" as the subject line and "MediaLive" as the sender of the email. We create the subscription using the Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) console.

To create a subscription for email notifications (Amazon SNS console)

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/v2/home.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Topics, and then choose Create new topic.

3. In the Create new topic dialog box, for Topic name, type the name that you want for the subject line of the email, such as MediaLive_alert.

4. For Display name, type the name that you want for the sender of the email, such as MediaLive.

5. Choose Create topic.

6. Amazon SNS creates the topic and displays the ARN in the list of topics. For example, arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111122223333:MediaLive, where 111122223333 is your AWS account.

7. Copy this ARN to your clipboard.

8. In the navigation pane, choose Subscriptions, and then choose Create subscription.

9. On the Subscriptions page, choose Create subscription.

10. In the Create subscriptions dialog box, for Topic ARN, type or paste the ARN.

11. For Protocol, choose Email.

12. For Endpoint, type the email address of the recipient. You must be able to log on to this email account because Amazon SNS sends a confirmation email to this address.

13. Choose Create subscription.

    Amazon SNS sends a confirmation email to the address that you specified.

14. Log on to that email account, and display the email. Choose the "Confirm subscription" link in the email to enable the subscription. A confirmation window appears in a web browser. You can close this window.

Step 2: Create a rule

You now create a rule in Amazon CloudWatch that says, "When CloudWatch receives any event from aws.medialive, invoke the specified SNS topic." In other words, you create a rule that sends an email to the subscribed email address.

To create a rule (Amazon CloudWatch console)

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Events.

3. On the Welcome to CloudWatch Events page, choose Create rule.

4. On the Step 1 page, in Event Source, choose Event Pattern.

5. Change Build event pattern to match to Custom event pattern.

6. In the box, type the following:

   {
     "source": [
       "aws.medialive"
     ]
   }

7. On the pane on the right, choose Add target.

8. Choose SNS topic.

9. For Topic, choose the topic that you created, for example, MediaLive_alert.

10. In Configure input, choose Matched event.

11. Choose Configure details.

12. Type a name and optional description, and then choose Create rule.

Now, whenever an alert occurs in MediaLive, an event will be sent to Amazon CloudWatch. This event will trigger the rule that instructs CloudWatch to send an email to the email address that you specified in the SNS subscription.