
AWS CloudWatch
Integration Documentation
AWS CloudWatch Integration
Overview
AWS CloudWatch provides monitoring and observability for your AWS resources and applications. This integration allows you to collect metrics, logs, and events from CloudWatch and correlate them with security events in Bloo.
Prerequisites
Configuration Steps
1. Enable CloudWatch Monitoring
2. Navigate to CloudWatch service
3. Ensure monitoring is enabled for your resources
4. Set up log groups for your applications
2. Create IAM Role
Create an IAM role with the following permissions:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
"logs:DescribeLogGroups",
"logs:FilterLogEvents",
"logs:GetLogEvents"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
3. Configure Bloo Integration
2. Navigate to Integrations > AWS CloudWatch
3. Click "Configure Integration"
4. Enter your AWS credentials and region
5. Select the metrics and log groups to monitor
6. Test the connection and save
Supported Metrics
Log Monitoring
Configure log monitoring for:
Alerting Configuration
Set up alerts for:
Best Practices
2. Set up appropriate log retention policies
3. Configure alarms for important metrics
4. Regularly review and optimize monitoring costs