AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm - allow tags

[Limess]

1. Title

CloudWatch supports tagging and untagging alarms, and it should be supported in CloudFormation.

2. Scope of request

Allow for tags on create, updating tags, etc.

3. Expected behavior

See 2 above.

4. Test case recommendation

• Adding tags on create of CloudWatch alarm.
• Addings tags on update of CloudWach alarm.
• Removing tags on update of CloudWatch Alarm.

5. Links to existing API doc

API Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html

In CloudWatch, alarms can be tagged.

6. Category tag

Management

7. Any additional context

The documentation on this feature is sparse.

Existing resource: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm.

This is supported by Boto: CloudWatch.Client.tag_resource.

[tvb]

@luiseduardocolon It has been sitting in status "We're working on it" since Jan 11th. Any update for this? My finance dept. is killing me for not being able to filter on tags for our alarms.

[JanneKataja-TomTom]

Also hoping this gets implemented soon. We want to set incident priority and urgency based on CloudWatch alarm tags, and not have to configure these separately in another system.

[qmg-drettie]

@luiseduardocolon any updates on this ?

[thomasklinger1234]

Also hoping this gets implemented soon. We want to set incident priority and urgency based on CloudWatch alarm tags, and not have to configure these separately in another system.

THIS. It would be so much easier to tag alarms and then create a CloudWatch event rule which forwards alarm state changes to a Lambda which checks the tags and forwards messages.. Thats my plan once tagging is available

[alexbarnes]

Argh. Just ran into this one.

[djfurman]

Adding my plus-one here. We have so many teams and applications we don't know who to contact about cleaning up their alarms that point to resources that may no longer exist.

[butangero]

+1 as well - this would be huge for us to be able to fully utilize tags for automating dashboard creation.

[lisakester]

+1 We need cloudwatch alarm tags so we can allow people to tag their alarms with information that's needed for our shared lambda functions.