From 3310cbe2db817a6202850a9636e724af57e6dca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Lucas <ryan.lucas@elliemae.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:33:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Loading incoming event into dictionary if from Cloudwatch.
 (#24)

---
 functions/notify_slack.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/functions/notify_slack.py b/functions/notify_slack.py
index 9b34e519..d6a7fad9 100644
--- a/functions/notify_slack.py
+++ b/functions/notify_slack.py
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ def notify_slack(message, region):
         "icon_emoji": slack_emoji,
         "attachments": []
     }
-    if "AlarmName" in message:
+    if "AlarmName" in message: # Incoming event is from Cloudwatch
+        message = json.loads(message)
         notification = cloudwatch_notification(message, region)
         payload['text'] = "AWS CloudWatch notification - " + message["AlarmName"]
         payload['attachments'].append(notification)