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Terraform module for creating alarms for tracking important changes and occurrences from cloudtrail.

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Terraform module for creating alarms for tracking important changes and occurances from cloudtrail.

This module creates a set of filter metrics and alarms based on the security best practices covered in the AWS CIS Foundations Benchmark guide.

This project is part of our comprehensive "SweetOps" approach towards DevOps.

It's 100% Open Source and licensed under the APACHE2.

Usage

module "cloudtrail_api_alarms" {
  source         = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-cloudtrail-cloudwatch-alarms.git"
  region         = "${var.region}"
  log_group_name = "${aws_cloudwatch_log_group.default.name}"
}

For detailed usage which includes setting up cloudtrail, cloudwatch logs, roles, policies, and the s3 bucket - as well as using this module see the example directory

Examples

Here's a complete example of using this terraform-aws-cloudtrail-cloudwatch-alarms module.

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
add_sns_policy Attach a policy that allows the notifications through to the SNS topic endpoint string false no
additional_endpoint_arns Any alert endpoints, such as autoscaling, or app scaling endpoint arns that will respond to an alert list <list> no
create_dashboard When true a dashboard that displays tha statistics as a line graph will be created in CloudWatch string true no
log_group_name The cloudtrail cloudwatch log group name string - yes
metric_namespace A namespace for grouping all of the metrics together string CISBenchmark no
region The region that should be monitored for unauthorised AWS API Access. Current region used if none provied. string `` no
sns_topic_arn An SNS topic ARN that has already been created. Its policy must already allow access from CloudWatch Alarms, or set add_sns_policy to true string `` no

Outputs

Name Description
dashboard_combined URL to CloudWatch Combined Metric Dashboard
dashboard_individual URL to CloudWatch Individual Metric Dashboard
sns_topic_arn The ARN of the SNS topic used

Metrics Tracked

Alarm's Name Description
AuthorizationFailureCount Alarms when an unauthorized API call is made.
S3BucketActivityEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to S3 to put or delete a Bucket, Bucket Policy or Bucket ACL.
SecurityGroupEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, update or delete a Security Group.
NetworkAclEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, update or delete a Network ACL.
GatewayEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, update or delete a Customer or Internet Gateway.
VpcEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, update or delete a VPC, VPC peering connection or VPC connection to classic.
EC2InstanceEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, terminate, start, stop or reboot an EC2 instance.
EC2LargeInstanceEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, terminate, start, stop or reboot a 4x-large or greater EC2 instance.
CloudTrailEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to create, update or delete a .cloudtrail. trail, or to start or stop logging to a trail.
ConsoleSignInFailureCount Alarms when an unauthenticated API call is made to sign into the console.
IAMPolicyEventCount Alarms when an API call is made to change an IAM policy.
ConsoleSignInWithoutMfaCount Alarms when a user logs into the console without MFA.
RootAccountUsageCount Alarms when a root account usage is detected.
KMSKeyPendingDeletionErrorCount Alarms when a customer created KMS key is pending deletion.
AWSConfigChangeCount Alarms when AWS Config changes.
RouteTableChangesCount Alarms when route table changes are detected.

Dashboard Created

Two CloudWatch Dashboards can be created as well, and will be automatically created by default.

CloudWatch Dashboard

Credits

The alarm metric names, descriptions, and filters from this repository were used.

With many thanks to Anton Babenko for pointing it out and saving us a lot of time scouring reference documents and describing alarms!

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Contributors

Erik Osterman
Erik Osterman		 Jamie Nelson
Jamie Nelson		 Anton Babenko
Anton Babenko

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