I articulate the question as follows:
Is the EventBridge event relayed to the ECS Task? (I can't see how much useful it could be if the event is not relayed).
If the event is relayed, then how to able to extract it from within say a Node app running as Task.
Some Context is Due: It is possible to set an EventBridge rule to trigger ECS Fargate Tasks as the result of events sourced from, say, CodeCommit. Mind you, the issue here is the sink/target, not the source. I was able to trigger a Fargate Task as I updated my repo. I could have used other events. My challenge resides in extracting the event relayed (in this case, repository name, commitId, etc from Fargate.)
The EventBridge documentation is clear on how to set the rules to trigger events but is mum on how events can be extracted - which makes sense as the sink/target documentation would have the necessary reference. But ECS documentation is not clear on how to extract relayed events.
I was able to inspect the metadata and process.env. I could not find the event in either of the stores.
I have added a CloudWatch Log Group as a target for the same rule and was able to extract the event. So it certainly relayed to some of the targets, but not sure if events are relayed to ECS Task.
Therefore, the questions arise: is the event relayed to the ECS Task? If so, how would you access it?
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Is it possible for AWS EventBridge to track UpdateThingShadow type of event and create a rule for those? How might an event pattern for such an update look like, and is the AWS service that we listen to AWS IOT Core, AWS CloudTrail or AWS CloudWatch?
The use case is that I do not want to expose the Device shadow directly, but have a table that reflects the state. Updating the table would trigger a custom EventBridge event that updates the table, while updating the DeviceShadow directly should trigger an AWS event that can hopefully be caught in the default AWS EventBridge. The question is what service triggers the event I might want to catch, and what EventPattern would that be.
Based on the IOT Core documentation, there is no mention of device shadow update events being triggered by the IOT Core service.
There is though, mention of monitoring UpdateThingShadow in CloudWatch. Does that mean that my EventBridge should listen to events coming in from Cloudwatch of type UpdateThingShadow?
I'm trying to set up a scheduler system for our infrastructure that suppose to take care of all scheduled housekeeping tasks. Our proposal is to make it simple and scalable with one docker image. A Script of each task and cloudWatch event rule will be passed in as parameters. The scripts will be uploaded on an s3 bucket and will be downloaded when the job gets triggered. This way we can avoid redeploying every time a task gets added.
The only tricky park is to pass in cloudWatch event rule as parameter.
Can an event target be triggered by multiple rules? Am I too ambitious on this project? I use terraform to provision it.
Turn Cloud watch logs on
Create a metric filter
Assign a metric
Create alarm.
Here is a tutorial which you can modify to suit your needs.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-receive-notifications-when-your-aws-accounts-root-access-keys-are-used/
Is there a simple way to change or add the recipients of the Instance Retirement notifications?
The owner of the account is getting it but he's not the one who's suppose to take care of it. We would also like to have multiple recipients (and not just the account official owner and the operations back-up).
It seems that aside from adding/removing tags and adding an operations back-up there's no way to change it but it is weird as almost anything else can be controlled in a simple way.
Thanks in advance!
You can use AWS Health events with Amazon CloudWatch Events to route the events and take actions necessary depending on the use case like as described in the doc you can even automate the workflow needed for specific actions.
You can use Amazon CloudWatch Events to detect and react to changes for AWS Health events. Then, based on the rules that you create, CloudWatch Events invokes one or more target actions when an event matches the values that you specify in a rule. Depending on the type of event, you can send notifications, capture event information, take corrective action, initiate events, or take other actions. For example, you can use AWS Health to receive email notifications if you have AWS resources in your AWS account that are scheduled for updates, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
I'm new to Cloudwatch events and to Fargate. I want to trigger a Fargate task (Python) to run whenever a file is uploaded to a specific S3 bucket. I can get the task to run whenever I upload a file, and can see the name in the event log; however I can't figure out a simple way to read the event data in Fargate. I've been researching this the past couple of days and haven't found solution other than reading the event log or using a lambda to invoke the task and to put the event data in a message queue.
Is there a simple way to obtain the event data in Fargate with boto3? It's likely that I'm not looking in the right places or asking the right question.
Thanks
One of the easiest options that you can configure is two targets for same s3 image upload event.
Push the Same Event to SQS
launch Fargate task at the same time
Read Message Event from SQS when Fargate is up (No Lambda in between), also same task definition that will work a normal use case, make sure you exit the process after reading the message from sqs.
So in this case whenever Fargate Task up, it will read messages from the SQS.
To do this you would need to use a input transformer.
Each time a event rule is triggered a JSON object accessible to use for in the transformation.
As the event itself is not accessible within the container (like with Lambda functions), the idea is that you would actually forward key information as environment variables and manipulate in your container.
At this time it does not look like every service supports this in the console so you have the following options:
CloudFormation
Terraform
CLI
You can view a tutorial for this exact scenario from this link.
Notifications: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/how-to-repository-email.html
Triggers: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/how-to-notify.html
The official document states that for CodeCommit repository 'events which follow CloudWatch Event Rules' (like pull requests), we use Repository Notifications.
Whereas for CodeCommit repository events which are just 'operational events' (like creating branches, pushing code to a branch), we use Repository Triggers.
I don't understand the difference between 'events which follow CloudWatch Event Rules' and 'operational events'. For me, both pull requests and pushing code to branch seem similar events.
Thus, confused between why we need both Repository Notifications and Repository Triggers.
I have asked the same question today and I found this on docs:
Repository notifications are different from repository triggers. Although you can configure a trigger to use Amazon SNS to send emails about some repository events, those events are limited to operational events, such as creating branches and pushing code to a branch. Triggers do not use CloudWatch Events rules to evaluate repository events. They are more limited in scope. For more information about using triggers, see Manage Triggers for a Repository.
IMO, AWS documentation has not clearly stated the difference between notification and triggers and cloudwatch events. Here is my understanding :
Notifications should be used for literal notification and not for taking action based on them.
Triggers are supposed to initiate action. So, if I need to invoke some service based on this event on which trigger is based, I would do that and hence the option to integrate Lambda service. In a way to add automation after codecommit events.
However, Cloudwatch Events provide a wide variety of integration option for codecommit events which are not available with trigger.