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AWS CloudWatch Alarms To Microsoft Teams Forwarder

This project contains an AWS Lambda function (ES6) that posts messages to a Microsoft Teams Webhook. With it, a team can receive AWS CloudWatch Alarms in a Microsoft Teams channel. Alarm data is preserved as is, but formatted in an HTML table

The function is designed to be attached as a subscriber to one or more SNS topics, which again is notified from CloudWatch Alarms.

This readme contains the following sections:

All commands below assume a POSIX compliant shell.

Development guide

Firstly:

npm install

Then, with AWS SAM CLI 🐿, post a message to your Microsoft Teams channel like this:

cat sample-event.json | sam local invoke AwsCloudWatchAlarmsToMsTeamsForwarder

File sample-event.json contains a dummy CloudWatch Alert event. The lambda function forwards this alert to the Microsoft Teams channel specified by the Webhook URL in template.yaml.

Deployment guide

The following steps describe how to install the lambda on AWS. You will need npm, aws cli and sam cli before you proceed. Also, from your terminal, ensure that you have configured proper AWS credentials.

Build the lambda project

npm install

Create the lambda S3 bucket

aws s3 mb s3://BUCKET_NAME

Where BUCKET_NAME is the name of the bucket you want to use for storing the packaged lambda function.

Build the lambda package

sam package --template-file template.yaml --s3-bucket BUCKET_NAME --output-template-file packaged.yaml

Deploy the lambda package

sam deploy --template-file ./packaged.yaml --stack-name LAMBDA_STACK_NAME --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

where LAMBDA_STACK_NAME is the AWS CloudFormation script name that you want to use.

Manual step - Configure the lambda function

From the AWS console, open the settings for your lambda function.

Update environment variable TEAMS_WEB_HOOK_URL to point to the relevant Microsoft Teams Webhook.

Manual step - attach to SNS topic

Attach the lambda function as an SNS subscriber to the SNS topic associated with your CloudWatch alarms.

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