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Relay alerts from Amazon CloudWatch to a HipChat room

Amazon CloudWatch to HipChat

Relay alerts from Amazon CloudWatch to a HipChat room

Setup

Requirements:

• A Heroku account
• A HipChat Account
• A HipChat Notification Token
• The HipChat Room ID where you want to send alerts
• An Amazon AWS account with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS setup and enabled

Deploy your application to to Heroku:

cd /path/to/wherever
git clone https://github.com/blackline/amazon-cloudwatch-to-hipchat.git

cd amazon-cloudwatch-to-hipchat
heroku apps:create
heroku config:set HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN=secret \
                  HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID=12345 \
                  HIPCHAT_FROM_NAME="AWS CloudWatch"
# Note that your HIPCHAT_FROM_NAME must be no more than 15 characters long: https://www.hipchat.com/docs/api/method/rooms/message
git push heroku master

Setup Amazon SNS:

• Create a new Topic, or select an existing Topic
• Add a New Subscription to the topic
• Select HTTPS, and paste in your HTTPS URL to your Heroku application

Setup Amazon CloudWatch:

• Create or modify an alert
• Select the "Send Notification" action
• Select the SNS topic you created / updated in the previous step