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Rob Olmos
Asked: 2017-07-06 19:38:28 +0800 CST

How to send alert for AWS EBS impaired volume?

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What is the best method to send an alert via SNS for an AWS EBS volume that has been marked as "impaired"?

Within Console > EC2, under Instances > Status Check tab, you can set a CloudWatch alert.

However, there is no ability under the Volume > Status Check tab.

I discovered under Health Events there's a couple but they're only for "volume lost" and "degraded performance". Not exactly for an impaired volume.

The volume doesn't receive a lot of activity so monitoring any performance metrics likely isn't a good solution.

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2 Answers

  1. According to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html#monitoring-volume-checks you can use CloudWatch Events to monitor EBS Volume status changes. You can then feed the Events into SNS topic of your choice or to a Lambda function or elsewhere to process the notification.

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  2. Best Answer

    Per AWS:

    Our engineers have stated that there is no volume metric in Amazon CloudWatch. They have stated that you can create custom scripts to describe the volume(s) every 5 minutes. You can then check the returned status to see if it's impaired and take action based on the result.

    You may also find this following documentation useful:

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html

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