Creating alarms from the operational recommendations - AWS Resilience Hub

Creating alarms from the operational recommendations

AWS Resilience Hub creates an AWS CloudFormation template that contains details to create the selected alarms in Amazon CloudWatch. After the template is generated, you can access it through an Amazon S3 URL, download the same and place it in your code pipeline or create a stack through the AWS CloudFormation console.

To create an alarm based on AWS Resilience Hub recommendations, you must create an AWS CloudFormation template for the recommended alarms and include them in your code base.

To create alarms in operational recommendations

  1. In the left navigation menu, choose Applications.

  2. In Applications, choose your application.

  3. Choose Assessments tab.

    In Resiliency assessments table, you can identify your assessments using the following information:

    • Name – Name of the assessment you had provided at the time of creation.

    • Status – Indicates the execution state of the assessment.

    • Compliance status – Indicates if the assessment is compliant with the resiliency policy.

    • Resiliency drift status – Indicates if your application has drifted or not from the previous successful assessment.

    • App version – Version of your application.

    • Invoker – Indicates the role that invoked the assessment.

    • Start time – Indicates the start time of the assessment.

    • End time – Indicates the end time of the assessment.

    • ARN – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the assessment.

  4. Select an assessment from the Resiliency assessments table. If you don't have an assessment, complete the procedure in Running resiliency assessments and then return to this step.

  5. Choose Operational recommendations.

  6. If not selected by default, choose Alarms tab.

    In Alarms table, you can identify the recommended alarms using the following:

    • Name – Name of the alarm that you have set for your application.

    • Description – Describes the objective of the alarm.

    • State – Indicates the current implementation state of the Amazon CloudWatch alarms.

      This column displays one of the following values:

      • Implemented – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are implemented in your application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are implemented in your application.

      • Not implemented – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are included but not implemented in your application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are not implemented in your application.

      • Excluded – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are excluded from your application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are excluded from your application. For more information about including and excluding recommended alarms, see Including or excluding operational recommendations.

      • Inactive – Indicates that the alarms are deployed to Amazon CloudWatch, but the status is set to INSUFFICIENT_DATA in Amazon CloudWatch. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the implemented and inactive alarms.

    • Configuration – Indicates if there are any pending configuration dependencies that needs to be addressed.

    • Type – Indicates the type of alarm.

    • AppComponent – Indicates the Application Components (AppComponents) that are associated with this alarm.

    • Reference ID – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack event in AWS CloudFormation.

    • Recommendation ID – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack resource in AWS CloudFormation.

  7. In Alarms tab, to filter the alarm recommendations in Alarms table based on a specific state, select a number below the same.

  8. Select the recommended alarms that you want to set up for your application, and choose Create CloudFormation template.

  9. In Create CloudFormation template dialog, you can use the auto-generated name, or you can enter a name for AWS CloudFormation template in the CloudFormation template name box.

  10. Choose Create. This can take up to a few minutes to create the AWS CloudFormation template.

    Complete the following procedure to include the recommendations in your code base.

To include the AWS Resilience Hub recommendations your code base

  1. Choose Templates tab to view the template you just created. You can identify your templates using the following:

    • Name – Name of the assessment you had provided at the time of creation.

    • Status – Indicates the execution state of the assessment.

    • Type – Indicates the type of operational recommendation.

    • Format – Indicates the format (JSON/ text) in which the template is created.

    • Start time – Indicates the start time of the assessment.

    • End time – Indicates the end time of the assessment.

    • ARN – The ARN of the template

  2. Under Template details, choose the link below Templates S3 Path to open the template object in Amazon S3 console.

  3. In Amazon S3 console, from Objects table, choose the SOP folder link.

  4. To copy the Amazon S3 path, select the check box in front of the JSON file and choose Copy URL.

  5. Create an AWS CloudFormation stack from AWS CloudFormation console. For more information about creating an AWS CloudFormation stack, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-console-create-stack.html.

    While creating the AWS CloudFormation stack, you must provide the Amazon S3 path that you copied from the previous step.