AWS Cloudwatch Terraform module

Terraform module which creates Cloudwatch resources on AWS.

Usage

Log metric filter

module "log_metric_filter" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/log-metric-filter"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  log_group_name = "my-application-logs"

  name    = "error-metric"
  pattern = "ERROR"

  metric_transformation_namespace = "MyApplication"
  metric_transformation_name      = "ErrorCount"
}

Read Filter and Pattern Syntax for explanation of pattern.

Log group

module "log_group" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/log-group"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  name              = "my-app"
  retention_in_days = 120
}

Log stream

module "log_stream" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/log-stream"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  name           = "stream1"
  log_group_name = "my-app"
}

Metric alarm

module "metric_alarm" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/metric-alarm"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  alarm_name          = "my-application-logs-errors"
  alarm_description   = "Bad errors in my-application-logs"
  comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
  evaluation_periods  = 1
  threshold           = 10
  period              = 60
  unit                = "Count"

  namespace   = "MyApplication"
  metric_name = "ErrorCount"
  statistic   = "Maximum"

  alarm_actions = ["arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:835367859852:my-sns-queue"]
}

Metric alarms by multiple dimensions

This submodule is useful when you need to create very similar alarms where only dimensions are different (eg, multiple AWS Lambda functions), but the rest of arguments are the same.

module "metric_alarms" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/metric-alarms-by-multiple-dimensions"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  alarm_name          = "lambda-duration-"
  alarm_description   = "Lambda duration is too high"
  comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
  evaluation_periods  = 1
  threshold           = 10
  period              = 60
  unit                = "Milliseconds"

  namespace   = "AWS/Lambda"
  metric_name = "Duration"
  statistic   = "Maximum"

  dimensions = {
    "lambda1" = {
      FunctionName = "index"
    },
    "lambda2" = {
      FunctionName = "signup"
    },
  }

  alarm_actions = ["arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:835367859852:my-sns-queue"]
}

Check out list of all AWS services that publish CloudWatch metrics for detailed information about each supported service.

CIS AWS Foundations Controls: Metrics + Alarms

module "cis_alarms" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/cis-alarms"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  log_group_name = "my-cloudtrail-logs"
  alarm_actions  = ["arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:835367859852:my-sns-queue"]
}

AWS CloudTrail normally publishes logs into AWS CloudWatch Logs. This module creates log metric filters together with metric alarms according to CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.4.0 (05-28-2021). Read more about CIS AWS Foundations Controls.

Metric Stream

module "metric_stream" {
  name          = "metric-stream"
  firehose_arn  = "arn:aws:firehose:eu-west-1:835367859852:deliverystream/metric-stream-example"
  output_format = "json"
  role_arn      = "arn:aws:iam::835367859852:role/metric-stream-to-firehose-20240113005123755300000002"

  # conflicts with exclude_filter
  include_filter = {
    ec2 = {
      namespace    = "AWS/EC2"
      metric_names = ["CPUUtilization", "NetworkIn"]
    }
  }

  statistics_configuration = [
    {
      additional_statistics = ["p99"]
      include_metric = [
        {
          namespace   = "AWS/EC2"
          metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
        },
        {
          namespace   = "AWS/EC2"
          metric_name = "NetworkIn"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      additional_statistics = ["p90", "TM(10%:90%)"]
      include_metric = [
        {
          namespace   = "AWS/EC2"
          metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Query Definition

module "query_definition" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/query-definition"
  version = "~> 4.0"

  name = "my-query-definition"
  log_group_names = ["my-log-group-name"]
  query_string = <<EOF
fields @timestamp, @message
| sort @timestamp desc
| limit 25
EOF
}

Composite Alarm

module "composite_alarm" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/cloudwatch/aws//modules/composite-alarm"
  version = "~> 4.0"

  alarm_name        = "composite-alarm"
  alarm_description = "Example of a composite alarm"

  alarm_actions = ["arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:835367859852:my-sns-topic"]
  ok_actions    = ["arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:835367859852:my-sns-topic"]

  alarm_rule = join(" AND ", tolist([
    "ALARM(metric-alarm-1)",
    "ALARM(metric-alarm-2)"
  ]))

  actions_suppressor = {
    alarm            = "suppressor"
    extension_period = 20
    wait_period      = 10
  }
}

Examples

• Complete Cloudwatch log metric filter and alarm
• Cloudwatch log group with log stream
• Cloudwatch metric alarms for AWS Lambda
• Cloudwatch metric alarms for AWS Lambda with multiple dimensions
• CIS AWS Foundations Controls: Metrics + Alarms
• Cloudwatch query definition
• Cloudwatch Metric Stream
• Cloudwatch Composite Alarm

Authors

Module is maintained by Anton Babenko with help from these awesome contributors.

License

Apache 2 Licensed. See LICENSE for full details.