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Centralized monitoring and alerting for AWS Systems Manager Agent status on managed nodes across AWS Organization

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This article explains how to set up centralized monitoring and alerting for the AWS Systems Manager Agent status across managed nodes in an AWS Organization. It provides a solution to monitor if the SSM Agent loses its healthy connection to AWS Systems Manager, and proactively send alerts.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Solution overview and architecture using AWS services like CloudFormation, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, SNS, Organizations, and EventBridge
  • Prerequisites for setting up the solution
  • Detailed walkthrough for deploying the solution using two CloudFormation templates
  • Viewing the CloudWatch dashboard and alarms created by the solution
  • Cleanup steps to delete the deployed resources
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits and potential enhancements to the solution


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