salt.states.boto_cloudwatch_alarm

Manage Cloudwatch alarms

Create and destroy cloudwatch alarms. Be aware that this interacts with Amazon's services, and so may incur charges.

This module uses boto, which can be installed via package, or pip.

This module accepts explicit credentials but can also utilize IAM roles assigned to the instance through Instance Profiles. Dynamic credentials are then automatically obtained from AWS API and no further configuration is necessary. More Information available at:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html

If IAM roles are not used you need to specify them either in a pillar or in the minion's config file:

cloudwatch.keyid: GKTADJGHEIQSXMKKRBJ08H
cloudwatch.key: askdjghsdfjkghWupUjasdflkdfklgjsdfjajkghs

It's also possible to specify key, keyid and region via a profile, either as a passed in dict, or as a string to pull from pillars or minion config:

myprofile:
  keyid: GKTADJGHEIQSXMKKRBJ08H
  key: askdjghsdfjkghWupUjasdflkdfklgjsdfjajkghs
  region: us-east-1

my test alarm:
  boto_cloudwatch_alarm.present:
    - name: my test alarm
    - attributes:
        metric: ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible
        namespace: AWS/SQS
        statistic: Average
        comparison: ">="
        threshold: 20000.0
        period: 60
        evaluation_periods: 1
        description: test alarm via salt
        dimensions:
          QueueName:
            - the-sqs-queue-name
        alarm_actions:
          - arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:1111111:myalerting-action

salt.states.boto_cloudwatch_alarm.absent(name, region=None, key=None, keyid=None, profile=None)

Ensure the named cloudwatch alarm is deleted.

name

Name of the alarm.

region

Region to connect to.

key

Secret key to be used.

keyid

Access key to be used.

profile

A dict with region, key and keyid, or a pillar key (string) that contains a dict with region, key and keyid.

salt.states.boto_cloudwatch_alarm.present(name, attributes, region=None, key=None, keyid=None, profile=None)

Ensure the cloudwatch alarm exists.

name

Name of the alarm

attributes

A dict of key/value cloudwatch alarm attributes.

region

Region to connect to.

key

Secret key to be used.

keyid

Access key to be used.

profile

A dict with region, key and keyid, or a pillar key (string) that contains a dict with region, key and keyid.