AWS Health Integration

AWS Health Integration

The AWS Health integration allows you to ingest incidents, outages, and maintenance from the AWS Health API. This API is provided by Amazon Web Services to customers on a Business support plan or above. Amazon typically publishes outages and incidents via this API to a subset of customers, only those affected by an outage. Only when an outage is widespread enough to warrant publishing on the public status page, do incidents appears in our public Amazon Web Services monitor.

For the best and most accurate status of incidents affecting your AWS infrastructure, consider the AWS Health integration. You’ll just need an AWS Access Key and Secret Access Token that has access only to the Health API. Here’s how to create that:

• Sign into AWS and navigate to IAM
• Navigate to users and create a user with a sensible name like statusgator-aws-private-status.
  Do not click the checkbox providing user access to the AWS Management Console.
• On the Set permissions screen, select “Attach policies directly”, and click “Create Policy”
• Under Specify permissions a policy with the following JSON

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "health:DescribeEvents",
        "health:DescribeEventDetails",
        "health:DescribeAffectedEntities",
        "health:DescribeEventTypes",
        "health:DescribeEventAggregates"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
     }
   ]
}

• Name the policy
• Apply the new policy to your user
• Finalize the user creation
• Go to the new users Security Credentials tab and create a new access key
• Select “Other” as your use case
• Specify the access key description tag
• Make note and store the access key and secret access key appropriately.