AWS Chatbot Now Supports Amazon CloudWatch Metrics and Logs

Posted on: Feb 25, 2020

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor metrics and logs related to AWS Chatbot. You can see metrics and create alarms for the events going to Slack and Amazon Chime via AWS Chatbot, such as the number of processed events, delivery failures, throttled events, and others. You can see details of events and troubleshoot failures by enabling Amazon CloudWatch Logs for your AWS Chatbot configurations. Using logs, you can see the raw event as well as the details of unsuccessful deliveries, throttling, and other failures that will help you troubleshoot AWS Chatbot configurations. 

Amazon CloudWatch Metrics are published for all accounts starting today at no extra charge. To enable logging, you can visit AWS Chatbot console, open the configuration you want to edit, and choose the logging level. AWS Chatbot supports logging of all events or only errors. Learn more about metrics and logging in AWS Chatbot documentation

AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts and run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases so that your team can collaborate and respond to events faster. Learn more about AWS Chatbot