alarm-craft 1.0.1

A tool to create AWS CloudWatch Alarms for your resources with specified name and tags

alarm-craft for AWS CloudWatch Alarms

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With modern architectures such as serverless and microservices, the number of resources managed in the cloud tends to increase, making monitoring a challenging task. alarm-craft is a tool designed to address this problem.

Features

• Bulk Generation: Generates the necessary monitoring alarms in bulk with a single command.
• Flexible Alarm Definition: Allows flexible definition of alarm conditions, including metrics and thresholds.
• Declarative Config: Provides declarative configurations for monitoring targets using resource name or tag.
• Integration with Your Deployment Pipeline: A CLI tool written in Python that can be seamlessly integrated into the deployment pipeline.
• DevOps: By leveraging declarative configurations based on the tag strategy and integrating alarm-craft with the deployment pipeline, DevOps teams can automatically monitor newly deployed resources.

Quick Start

1. Install python (>= 3.9), and install alarm-craft.

   pip install alarm-craft
   

2. Create a json file like below and save it as alarm-config.yaml

   resources:
     lambda:
       target_resource_type: "lambda:function"
       alarm:
         metrics:
           - Errors
   

3. Execute the tool.

   alarm-craft
   

   By this execution, the alarm-craft creates Cloudwatch Alarms to detect Errors in all Lambda functions.

Documentation

For detailed instructions and information on configuring the tool, refer to the Wiki.