README.md

aws-health-event-publisher

Publish an AWS Health event formatted as a Slack API chat.postMessage message to an SNS topic. This currently supports AWS Health notifications and not issues because issues are not sent as aws.health events.

This is intended to be used with aws-sns-to-slack-publisher

Service Interface

• Event Type: AWS CloudWatch Event - Health Event
• Event Message: The message shape may be found here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/EventTypes.html#health-event-types

Example event:

{
  "version": "0",
  "id": "7bf73129-1428-4cd3-a780-95db273d1602",
  "detail-type": "AWS Health Event",
  "source": "aws.health",
  "account": "123456789012",
  "time": "2016-06-05T06:27:57Z",
  "region": "%%region%%",
  "resources": [],
  "detail": {
    "eventArn": "arn:aws:health:%%region%%::event/%%id%%",
    "service": "service",
    "eventTypeCode": "AWS_%%service_code%%",
    "eventTypeCategory": "%%category%%",
    "startTime": "Sun, 05 Jun 2016 05:01:10 GMT",
    "endTime": "Sun, 05 Jun 2016 05:30:57 GMT",
    "eventDescription": [{
      "language": "%%lang-code%%",
      "latestDescription": "%%description%%"
    }]
    ...
  }
}

Deployment

This application is intended to be deployed using AWS Serverless Application Repository. However, Serverless Framework is also supported.

Serverless Application Repository / CloudFormation

• AWS Serverless Application Repository: aws-health-event-publisher

Serverless Framework

$ npm install -g serverless
$ npm install
$ serverless deploy -v

Exports

• ${AWS::StackName}-HealthEventSnsTopicArn: AWS SNS topic ARN where health events are published to.