Free Monitoring Templates for Terraform

Public beta: This project is work in progress. If you are looking for a stable soltuion, we recommend our Jump Starts based on CloudFormation templates.

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	Module Source
AWS basics	git::https://github.com/marbot-io/monitoring-jump-start-tf.git//modules/basic
RDS cluster (Aurora)	git::https://github.com/marbot-io/monitoring-jump-start-tf.git//modules/rds-cluster

Usage

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

provider "aws" {}

module "basic" {
  source           = "git::https://github.com/marbot-io/monitoring-jump-start-tf.git//modules/basic"

  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

Run the following commands:

terraform init -upgrade
terraform apply

License

All templates are published under Apache License Version 2.0.

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