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

AWS account with CloudWatch enabled

IAM permissions to access CloudWatch metrics and logs

Bloo platform access credentials

Configuration Steps

1. Enable CloudWatch Monitoring

Navigate to CloudWatch service

Ensure monitoring is enabled for your resources

Set up log groups for your applications

2. Create IAM Role

Create an IAM role with the following permissions:

``json

{


    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
                "logs:FilterLogEvents",
                "logs:GetLogEvents"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

3. Configure Bloo Integration

Log into your Bloo platform dashboard

Navigate to Integrations > AWS CloudWatch

Click "Configure Integration"

Enter your AWS credentials and region

Select the metrics and log groups to monitor

Test the connection and save

Supported Metrics

EC2 Metrics: CPU, memory, network, disk usage

RDS Metrics: Database performance and health

Lambda Metrics: Function execution and errors

Custom Metrics: Application-specific metrics

Log Monitoring

Configure log monitoring for:

Application logs

System logs

Security logs

Access logs

Alerting Configuration

Set up alerts for:

High resource utilization

Error rate thresholds

Performance degradation

Security events

Best Practices

Use detailed monitoring for critical resources

Set up appropriate log retention policies

Configure alarms for important metrics

Regularly review and optimize monitoring costs