aws-cloudwatch-alerts

AWS CloudWatch Alerts Generator

This tool automatically generates CloudWatch alarms for common AWS infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, ECS services, RDS instances, and Application Load Balancers (ALBs).

Features

• Automatically detects running EC2 instances, ECS services, RDS instances, and ALBs in the specified AWS region.
• Creates CloudWatch alarms for the following metrics:
  • EC2: CPU Utilization
  • ECS: CPU and Memory Utilization
  • RDS: Free Storage Space
  • ALB: HTTP 5xx error count

Prerequisites

• Go (to compile and run the tool)
• AWS CLI (configured with appropriate permissions)
• AWS SDK for Go (dependencies are imported in the code)

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jessegersensonchess/aws-cloudwatch-alerts
cd aws-cloudwatch-alerts

1. Compile the tool:

go build -o cloudwatch-alerts-generator

1. Run the tool:

./cloudwatch-alerts-generator -region [AWS_REGION] -profile [AWS_CLI_PROFILE]

Replace [AWS_REGION] with the desired AWS region (e.g., us-east-1) and [AWS_CLI_PROFILE] with the AWS CLI profile name you wish to use.

Docker

docker build -t cloudwatch-alerts-generator:latest .
docker run --rm -v ${HOME}/.aws/:/root/.aws cloudwatch-alerts-generator -region us-east-2 -profile default

Flags

• -region: The AWS region where your resources are located. Default is us-east-2.
• -profile: The AWS CLI profile name to use for authentication. Default is 4511dev.

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have suggestions or improvements!