6: Systems Manager / OpsCenter
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What’s OpsCenter?
- A central spot to manage operational “work item”
- Issue / interruption that needs investigation / fix
- Aka “OpsItem”
- (A capability of SystemsManager)
- Helpful to reduce mean TTR
Automatically Create OpsItems in OpsCenter.
What’s it integrate with?
- CloudWatch Alarms
- EventBridge Events
The sort of stuff it listens for:
From CloudWatch Alarms:
- DB r/w reaches some threshold
- CPU Utilization reaches some threshold
- Billing / charges reach some thresh
- Ec2 instance fails a status check
- EBS disk space running low
From EventBridge:
- Security Hub: Alert issued
- DB: Throttling event
- ASG: Failure to launch instance
- Systems Mgr: Failure to run
- AWS Health: Alert for regular maintenance
- EC2: Instance state change