Viewing alarms
You can view all the active alarms that you have set up to monitor the resiliency of your applications. AWS Resilience Hub uses AWS CloudFormation template to store alarm details that is in-turn used for creating the alarms in Amazon CloudWatch. You can access the AWS CloudFormation template using Amazon S3 URL, and can download and place it into your code pipeline or create a stack through the AWS CloudFormation console.
To view alarms from the dashboard, choose Dashboard from the left navigation menu. In Implemented alarms table, you can identify the implemented alarms using the following information:
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Application impacted – Name of the applications that have implemented this alarm.
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Active alarms – Indicates the number of active alarms triggered from the applications.
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FIS in progress – Indicates the AWS FIS experiment that is currently running for your application.
To view the alarms implemented in your application
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In the left navigation menu, choose Applications.
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Select an application from the Applications table.
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In the application summary page, the Implemented alarms table displays all the recommended alarms that are implemented in your application.
To find a specific alarm in the Implemented alarms table, in the Find alarms by text, property, or value box, select one of the following fields, choose an operation, and then type a value.
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Alarm name – Name of the alarm that you have set for your application.
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Description – Describes the objective of the alarm.
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State – Indicates the current implementation state of the Amazon CloudWatch alarm.
This column displays one of the following values:
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Implemented – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are implemented in your application. Choose the number below to view all the recommended and implemented alarms in Operational recommendations tab.
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Not implemented – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are included but not implemented in your application. Choose the number below to view all the recommended and non-implemented alarms in Operational recommendations tab.
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Excluded – Indicates that the alarms recommended by AWS Resilience Hub are excluded from your application. Choose the number below to view all the recommended and excluded alarms in Operational recommendations tab. For more information about including and excluding recommended alarms, see Including or excluding operational recommendations.
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Inactive – Indicates that the alarms are deployed to Amazon CloudWatch, but the status is set to INSUFFICIENT_DATA in Amazon CloudWatch. Choose the number below to view all the implemented and inactive alarms in Operational recommendations tab.
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Source template – Provides the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the AWS CloudFormation stack that contains the alarm details.
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Resource – Displays the resources that this alarm is attached to and was implemented for.
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Metric – Displays the Amazon CloudWatch metric assigned for the alarm. For more information about Amazon CloudWatch metrics, see Amazon CloudWatch Metrics.
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Last change – Displays the date and time an alarm was last modified.
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To view the recommended alarms from assessments
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In the left navigation menu, choose Applications.
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Select an application from the Applications table.
To find an application, enter the application name in the Find applications box.
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Choose Assessments tab.
In Resiliency assessments table, you can identify your assessments using the following information:
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Name – Name of the assessment you had provided at the time of creation.
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Status – Indicates the execution state of the assessment.
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Compliance status – Indicates if the assessment is compliant with the resiliency policy.
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Resiliency drift status – Indicates if your application has drifted or not from the previous successful assessment.
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App version – Version of your application.
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Invoker – Indicates the role that invoked the assessment.
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Start time – Indicates the start time of the assessment.
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End time – Indicates the end time of the assessment.
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ARN – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the assessment.
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Select an assessment from the Resiliency assessments table.
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Choose Operational recommendations tab.
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If not selected by default, choose Alarms tab.
In Alarms table, you can identify the recommended alarms using the following:
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Name – Name of the alarm that you have set for your application.
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Description – Describes the objective of the alarm.
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State – Indicates the current implementation state of the Amazon CloudWatch alarms.
This column displays one of the following values:
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Implemented – Indicates that the alarm is implemented in your application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are implemented in your application.
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Not implemented – Indicates that the alarm is not implemented or included in your application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are not implemented in your application.
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Excluded – Indicates that the alarm is excluded from the application. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the recommended alarms that are excluded from your application. For more information about including and excluding recommended alarms, see Including or excluding operational recommendations.
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Inactive – Indicates that the alarms are deployed to Amazon CloudWatch, but the status is set to INSUFFICIENT_DATA in Amazon CloudWatch. Choosing the number below will filter the Alarms table to display all the implemented and inactive alarms.
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Configuration – Indicates if there are any pending configuration dependencies that needs to be addressed.
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Type – Indicates the type of alarm.
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AppComponent – Indicates the Application Components (AppComponents) that are associated with this alarm.
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Reference ID – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack event in AWS CloudFormation.
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Recommendation ID – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack resource in AWS CloudFormation.
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