Free Monitoring Templates for Terraform

Setting up monitoring on AWS is hard. There are countless monitoring possibilities on AWS. Overlooking the important settings is easy. Monitoring Jump Starts connect you with all relevant AWS sources for comprehensive monitoring coverage.

Jump Starts are CloudFormation templates or Terraform modules that you can deploy to your AWS account to setup CloudWatch Alarms, CloudWatch Event Rules, and much more.

At the moment, you can monitor:

Monitoring goal	Terraform registry
AWS basics	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-basic
Aplication Load Balancer (ALB)	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-alb
Auto Scaling Group	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-asg
EC2 instance	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-ec2-instance
RDS cluster (Aurora)	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-rds-cluster
SQS queue	https://registry.terraform.io/modules/marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-sqs-queue

Usage

This example connects you to all relevant sources of errors, warnings, and notifications published by AWS services, and forwards them to Slack managed by marbot.

1. Create a new directory
2. Within the new directory, create a file main.tf with the following content:

provider "aws" {}

module "marbot-monitoring-basic" {
  source  = "marbot-io/marbot-monitoring-basic/aws"
  #version = "x.y.z"    # we recommend to pin the version

  endpoint_id      = "" # to get this value, select a Slack channel where marbot belongs to and send a message like this: "@marbot show me my endpoint id"
  budget_threshold = 10 # in USD (optional)
}

3. Run the following commands:

terraform init
terraform apply

Update procedure

1. Update the modules's version to the latest version
2. Run the following commands:

terraform get
terraform apply

License

All modules are published under Apache License Version 2.0.

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