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CloudWatch AlarmsΒΆ

  • Alarms are used to trigger notifications for any [[metric]]
  • Alarms can go to Auto Scaling Group (ASG), [[EC2 actions]], [[SNS notifications]]
  • Various options (sampling, %, max, min, etc)
  • Alarm States:
    • OK
    • INSUFFICIENT_DATA
    • ALARM
  • Period:
    • Length of time in seconds to evaluate the metric
    • High resolution custom metrics: can only choose 10 sec or 30 sec