AWS Health provides ongoing visibility into the state of your AWS resources, services, and accounts. Enable this integration to see AWS Health service events in Datadog:
Note: This integration only works for AWS customers with a Business or Enterprise support plan.
If you haven’t already, set up the Amazon Web Services integration first.
Add the following permissions to your Datadog IAM policy in order to collect Amazon Health metrics. For more information on Health policies, review the documentation on the AWS website.
| AWS Permission | Description |
|---|---|
health:DescribeEvents | Used to list all health events |
health:DescribeEventDetails | Gets detailed information on health events |
health:DescribeAffectedEntities | Gets the affected AWS entities for health events |
Install the Datadog - AWS Health integration.
Configure Amazon Health to send logs either to a S3 bucket or to Cloudwatch.
Note: If you log to a S3 bucket, make sure that amazon_health is set as Target prefix.
If you haven’t already, set up the Datadog log collection AWS Lambda function.
Once the lambda function is installed, manually add a trigger on the S3 bucket or Cloudwatch log group that contains your Amazon Health logs in the AWS console:
The AWS Health integration does not include any metric.
The AWS Health integration includes events found in the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. Examples include open issues, scheduled maintenances, and account notifications.
The AWS Health integration does not include any service checks.
Need help? Contact Datadog support.
