cloudwatch-alarm-creator

AWS CloudWatch alarms monitor EC2 metrics like CPU utilization by configuring specific thresholds and evaluation periods. The alarm triggers when utilization exceeds the set limit for consecutive periods and sends SNS notifications.

Yes, CloudWatch alarms can be configured for AWS RDS and ALB resources. The setup supports defining thresholds, evaluation periods, and alarm actions to monitor various AWS services and custom metrics effectively.

To send CloudWatch alarm notifications to an SNS topic, integrate SNS within the alarm action configuration. When the monitored metric breaches its defined threshold, the alarm automatically sends a notification to the specified SNS topic.

Yes, CloudWatch alarm configuration supports anomaly detection for advanced monitoring. This allows the system to evaluate metrics against expected behavior patterns rather than relying solely on static thresholds for triggering alarms.

Creating composite CloudWatch alarms involves combining multiple individual alarm states into a single rule expression. This allows you to trigger actions based on the collective status of several underlying metric alarms.