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Overview

Connect SNS to Datadog in order to:

  • See SNS messages as events in your stream
  • Send alert and event notifications to SNS

Setup

Installation

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

Metric collection

  1. In the AWS integration tile, ensure that SNS is checked under metric collection.

  2. Add the following permissions to your Datadog IAM policy in order to collect Amazon SNS metrics. For more information, see the SNS policies on the AWS website.

    AWS PermissionDescription
    sns:ListTopicsUsed to list available topics.
    sns:PublishUsed to publish notifications (monitors or event feed).

  3. Install the Datadog - AWS SNS integration.

Event collection

Receive SNS messages

To receive SNS messages in the Datadog Event Stream:

  1. On the Topics section of the SNS Management console, select the desired topic and click Create Subscription.

  2. Select https and enter the following Webhook url:

    ## Datadog US site
https://app.datadoghq.com/intake/webhook/sns?api_key=<API KEY>

## Datadog EU site
https://app.datadoghq.eu/intake/webhook/sns?api_key=<API KEY>

  3. Do not enable “raw message delivery”

Send SNS notifications

To send SNS notifications from Datadog:

  1. Configure the AWS account that is associated with an SNS service on the AWS integration tile
  2. Install the SNS integration
  3. Datadog then detects your configured SNS topics and enables @notifications, for example: @sns-topic-name.

Log collection

SNS does not provide logs. Process logs and events that are transiting through to the SNS.

Send logs to Datadog

  1. Configure a new SNS subscription
  2. Select the topic where messages come from
  3. Select “Lambda” as protocol and the arn of your Datadog Forwarder Lambda function
AWS sns log collection
AWS sns log collection 2

Data Collected

Metrics

aws.sns.number_of_messages_published
(count)		Number of messages published.
Shown as message
aws.sns.publish_size
(gauge)		Size of messages published.
Shown as byte
aws.sns.number_of_notifications_delivered
(count)		Number of messages successfully delivered.
Shown as message
aws.sns.number_of_notifications_failed
(count)		Number of messages that SNS failed to deliver.
Shown as message
aws.sns.dwell_time
(gauge)		Time waited by a message before it was delivered.
Shown as millisecond
aws.sns.smssuccess_rate
(gauge)		The percentage of successfully delivered sms.
Shown as percent
aws.sns.number_of_notifications_filtered_out
(count)		The number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies. A filter policy rejects a message when the message attributes don't match the policy attributes.
Shown as message
aws.sns.number_of_notifications_filtered_out_no_message_attributes
(count)		The number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies. A filter policy rejects a message when the message attributes don't match the policy attributes.
Shown as message
aws.sns.number_of_notifications_filtered_out_invalid_attributes
(count)		The number of messages that were rejected by subscription filter policies because the messages have no attributes.
Shown as message

Each of the metrics retrieved from AWS is assigned the same tags that appear in the AWS console, including but not limited to host name, security-groups, and more.

Events

The AWS SNS integration includes events for topic subscriptions. See the example event below:

AWS SNS Events

Service Checks

The AWS SNS integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Datadog does not support SNS notifications from Datadog to topics in GovCloud or China.

Need help? Contact Datadog support.