Creating CloudWatch alarms to monitor Timestream for LiveAnalytics

You can create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for Timestream for LiveAnalytics that sends an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) message when the alarm changes state. An alarm watches a single metric over a time period that you specify. It performs one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a given threshold over a number of time periods. The action is a notification sent to an Amazon SNS topic or Auto Scaling policy.

Alarms invoke actions for sustained state changes only. CloudWatch alarms do not invoke actions simply because they are in a particular state. The state must have changed and been maintained for a specified number of periods.

For more information about creating CloudWatch alarms, see Using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.