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