AWS CloudWatch Integration

Sync AWS CloudWatch alert events to Flashduty via webhook to achieve automated alert noise reduction.

In AWS CloudWatch

Go to the Topics page, click the Create topic button to start creating a topic

Select Standard for Type, enter FlashDuty as the name

Click the Create Topic button to complete topic creation

Go to the Subscriptions page, click the Create subscription button to create a subscription for the topic

Select FlashDuty for Topic ARN, choose HTTPS for Protocol, enter the integration push URL for Endpoint (enter the integration name on the current page, the URL will be generated after saving)

Click the Create subscription button to complete subscription creation

Return to the Subscriptions page. When the subscription status shows Confirmed, the subscription URL verification is successful; otherwise, please contact Flashduty

Search for the CloudWatch product and enter its console

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Go to the All alarms page, choose to create or edit existing alarm policies

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For the Notification step, select FlashDuty as the SNS topic for all three states: In alarm, OK, and Insufficient data, as shown below:

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Return to the integration list. If the latest event time is displayed, the configuration is successful and events are being received

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Complete

Status Mapping

All CloudWatch metric alarms correspond to Flashduty "warning" severity level alerts.

AWS CloudWatch Integration

In Flashduty

Using Private Integration

Using Shared Integration

In AWS CloudWatch

Status Mapping

AWS CloudWatch Integration

In Flashduty#

Using Private Integration#

Using Shared Integration#

In AWS CloudWatch#

Status Mapping#

In Flashduty

Using Private Integration

Using Shared Integration

In AWS CloudWatch

Status Mapping