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Alarm Recommendations

Overview

CloudWatch provides out-of-the-box alarm recommendations to help you identify key metrics to monitor based on AWS best practices. These recommendations include suggested metrics, thresholds, and pre-filled alarm settings, making it easier to set up effective monitoring for your AWS infrastructure. These alarms can be utilized within threat detection and hunting for anomalous behavior.

Key Features:

  1. Alarm Recommendations:

    • CloudWatch suggests which metrics to monitor (e.g., for Lambda or S3).

    • Recommended alarm thresholds are pre-filled for some metrics.

  2. Infrastructure-as-Code Support:

    • Download alarm definitions for AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, or Terraform.

    • Bulk download alarm code for all recommended metrics in a namespace (e.g., AWS/Lambda).

  3. Integration with the CloudWatch Console:

    • Easily create recommended alarms using the alarm creation wizard.

    • Pre-filled settings include metric name, statistic, and period.

Steps to Create Recommended Alarms:

  1. Find Metrics with Recommended Alarms:

    • Open the CloudWatch console > Metrics > Alarm recommendations.

    • Select a namespace (e.g., AWS/S3) to view metrics with recommendations.

    • Choose View details to see the alarm intent and threshold.

  2. Create an Alarm:

    • Select a metric, click the Graphed metrics tab, and click the alarm icon.

    • Use the alarm wizard to configure notifications, Auto Scaling, or EC2 actions.

    • Enter a name, confirm settings, and click Create alarm.

  3. Download Alarm Code:

    • Download infrastructure-as-code templates for individual alarms or all alarms in a namespace.

    • Choose the format (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, or Terraform) for the code.

Charges and Notifications:

  • Alarm creation incurs regular CloudWatch charges.

  • Using recommendations incurs no extra cost.

  • Notifications can be configured via SNS Topics

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