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How to optimize Cloudwatch alerts firing out-of-hours?

We have a range of AWS/NatGateway alerts set up to monitor the health of our networking. When the cloudwatch alerts fire, this goes to an SNS/Lambda, which then fires a message to Slack. One of the ...
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How I can retrieve aws lambda cloudwatch logs in txt format so I can search on them?

A lambda that I have deployed has gone wrong. Therefore, I want to look on logs and find out whats wrong about it. Hence I look upon cloudwatch logs for any error message. But the cloudwatch ...
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Unable to send cloudwatch logs to loggly using a blueprint lambda - Invalid ciphertext

I am trying to use the loggly Lambda blueprint to send cloudwatch logs to loggly. I am doing this because I have a bunch of lambdas that I need to have a single point of viewing logs. I've followed ...
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Mitigate false positives due to daylight saving time in CloudWatch anomaly dectector

For monitoring, I set up CloudWatch alerts based on CloudWatch anomaly detection. Overall, they work quite nicely, but they got confused when the clock gets shifted (summer timer to winter time). We ...
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How to track unused resources in AWS?

I have been using AWS for a while now. I always have the difficulty tracking AWS resources and how they are interconnected. Obviously, I am using Terraform but still, there is always ad-hoc operations ...
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How to create custom AWS CloudWatch metric for i-node

I have created custom CloudWatch alarm for Disk Utilization for root and mount volume to monitor the disk space for my Ubuntu (16.04) instances, but quite often it happens that disk is only 60% full (...
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Is it possible to create AWS CloudWatch Metric Filters with dimensions? [closed]

CloudWatch Metric Filters are the recommended way to create custom metrics from Lambda functions. Sending the metrics directly from the lambda function to the CloudWatch api is the main alternative, ...
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How to send SMS through AWS?

Can we send SMS through AWS for the below case? I have an application installed on Ec2 and that application runs few rules and may send SMS to end users if the rule conditions are met. I wanted to ...
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How to set up AWS Trusted Advisor alert for Service Limit warnings?

All I want in life is for AWS to shoot me an email when any of Trusted Advisor's Service Limits go to WARN or ERROR status. I've checked their guides, tried chatting with support and no one can get ...
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How to communicate queue-based processing delays to non-technical team members?

I am responsible for a set of SQS queue-processing jobs with a scaling policy on the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible CloudWatch metric. These jobs can fail to keep up with the amount of messages ...
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Is it possible to set CloudWatch alarm for a combination of metrics?

For example, I want to trigger a CloudWatch alarm for the following: Number of messages sent - Number of messages deleted >= 6 The above is for AWS SQS metrics. And I want that metric to trigger AWS ...
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