Amazon Health

Overview

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.

Setup

Installation

If you haven’t already, set up the Amazon Web Services integration first.

Metric collection

1. Add the following permissions to your Datadog IAM policy in order to collect Amazon Health data. For more information, see the Health policies 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

2. Install the Datadog - AWS Health integration.

Log collection

Enable logging

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.

Send logs to Datadog

1. If you haven’t already, set up the Datadog log collection AWS Lambda function.

2. 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:

   • Add a manual trigger on the S3 bucket
   • Add a manual trigger on the CloudWatch Log Group

Data Collected

Metrics

The AWS Health integration does not include any metrics.

Events

The AWS Health integration includes events found in the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. Examples include open issues, scheduled maintenances, and account notifications.

Service Checks

The AWS Health integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.