Monitoring account-specific and public events for AWS Health - AWS Health

Monitoring account-specific and public events for AWS Health

When you create an EventBridge rule to monitor events from AWS Health, the rule delivers both account-specific events and public events:

  • Account-specific events affect your account and resources, such as an event that tells you about a required update to an Amazon EC2 instance or other scheduled change events.

  • Public events appear on the AWS Health Dashboard – Service health. Public events aren't specific to AWS accounts and provide public information about the Regional availability of a service.

Important

To receive both event types, your rule must use the "source": [ "aws.health"] value. Wildcards, such as "source": [ "aws.health*"] won't match the pattern to monitor for any events.

If you're monitoring public events from an AWS Region, we recommend that you create a back up rule. Public events for AWS Health are sent simultaneously to both the impacted Region and to a backup Region. It's recommended that you de-duplicate AWS Health events using eventARN and communicationId because these remain consistent for AWS Health messages sent to the backup Region.

You can identify if an event is public or account-specific in EventBridge, by using the eventScopeCode parameter. Events can have the PUBLIC or ACCOUNT_SPECIFIC. You can also filter your rule on this parameter.

Example: Public events for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

The following event shows an operational issue for Amazon EC2 in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.


{
    "version": "0",
    "id": "fd9d4512-1eb0-50f6-0491-d016ae56aef0",
    "detail-type": "AWS Health Event",
    "source": "aws.health",
    "account": "123456789012",
    "time": "2023-02-15T10:07:10Z",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "resources": [],
    "detail": {
        "eventArn": "arn:aws:health:us-east-1::event/EC2/AWS_EC2_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE",
        "service": "EC2",
        "eventTypeCode": "AWS_EC2_OPERATIONAL_ISSUE",
        "eventTypeCategory": "issue",
        "eventScopeCode": "PUBLIC",
        "communicationId": "01b0993207d81a09dcd552ebd1e633e36cf1f09a-1",
        "startTime": "Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:07:07 GMT",
        "lastUpdatedTime": "Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:07:07 GMT",
        "statusCode": "open",
        "eventRegion": "us-east-1",
        "eventDescription": [{
            "latestDescription": "We are investigating increased API Error rates and Latencies for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in the US-EAST-1 Region.",
            "language": "en_US"
        }],
        "page": "1",
        "totalPages": "1",
        "affectedAccount": "123456789012"

    }
}