CloudWatch Alarm with No Data
An alarm in INSUFFICIENT_DATA never transitions to ALARM, so the condition it was written for goes unreported while the alarm's presence suggests it is covered.
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AWS
Found, explained, fixed.
Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Delete the CloudWatch alarm with no data. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.
Fix
In one click, ZopNight deletes the resource, then checks the change took. When someone other than an admin starts a pause or a delete, an admin approves it first.
- Applies to
- CloudWatch Alarms on AWS
- The fix, by hand
- Check if the monitored resource still exists.
- Verify the metric namespace and dimensions are correct.
- Delete the alarm if the resource no longer exists.
- Update the alarm configuration if the metric changed.
ZopNight does this for you in one click.
- Category
- Orphaned resources. Resources no longer attached to anything that needs them, such as unattached volumes and unassigned IPs.
- Where it appears
- The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
- Rule ID
RC-176- Full reference
Related checks
See the orphaned resources in your account.
Connect a read-only role and the first pass runs on your own estate. This check, and the rest of the catalogue, with it.
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- $30M+annualised cloud spend under management
- 550K+resources tracked since launch
- 20-60%off the bill in the first month
- SOC 2Type II report, plus ISO 27001
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