AWS CloudWatch integration
Bring CloudWatch alarms into HowlOps as incidents via SNS, so AWS-native alarms get the same escalation and status-page treatment as everything else.
What this brings you
CloudWatch alarms are how a lot of AWS-native infrastructure tells you something is wrong, but that signal is easy to miss if it only lives in the AWS console or an inbox nobody watches closely. Connect CloudWatch as an inbound source and its alarms arrive in HowlOps as incidents, going through the same on-call escalation and status-page visibility as monitors HowlOps checks directly.
Setup
- In HowlOps, open Integrations in the sidebar (the Integration Hub).
- Under Bring alerts into HowlOps, click the AWS CloudWatch source card, then Generate endpoint to get a token-scoped webhook URL.
- In AWS, create an SNS topic (or reuse one) and subscribe it to that HowlOps endpoint using an HTTPS subscription.
- Confirm the SNS subscription (AWS sends a confirmation request to the endpoint, which HowlOps auto-confirms).
- Point the CloudWatch alarm(s) you want forwarded at that SNS topic as their alarm action.
- Trigger a test alarm state change and confirm the incident appears in HowlOps.
The endpoint you generate is scoped to the source type you picked when creating it (CloudWatch). If you also connect other AWS SNS-based sources, generate a separate endpoint for each.
See also
- Integrations reference for the endpoint format and the full inbound source list.
- AWS SNS if you want alerts to flow the other direction too, from HowlOps out to an SNS topic.
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