RDS event notifications announce database maintenance, failover, and more.
Maintenance
Be the first to know about the reason for a database downtime. Get notified of any maintenance affecting your database instances.
Low Storage
Prevent yourself from a lot of trouble by receiving a notification indicating your database instance consumes more than 90% of the available storage.
Recovery
Stay calm when RDS is recovering from a failure. For example, receive an alert when an automatic fail-over happens from your master database instance to your standby database instance.
or read the setup help page.
Monitoring Jump Start
Monitoring an RDS database instance touches multiple parts of AWS. I will do the configuration for you.
How marbot works
1. RDS event notification
RDS publishes events of different types (e.g., recovery, low storage, and failover). Create a subscription to all or selected event types. Afterwards, RDS will send marbot the events via HTTPS.
2. marbot
Once marbot receive an event, marbot checks if the event is a duplicate to reduce noise. marbot also enriches the event with Quick Links to the AWS Management Console. Finally, marbot sends a Slack message with the event to a single engineer of your team.
3. Your team
A member of your team now has to acknowledge the alert. marbot escalates unnoticed alerts to another team member or the whole crew if necessary. Once acknowledged, marbot waits until you have fixed the issue.
or read the setup help page.
Strong integrations with AWS and 3rd party services.
Supported AWS resources:
- AMI
- Auto Scaling
- Budget
- CloudFormation
- CloudWatch Alarms
- CloudWatch Events
- CodePipeline
- DynamoDB
- EC2
- Elastic Beanstalk
- ElastiCache
- ELB
- EMR
- KMS
- Lambda
- RDS
- S3
- SES
- SNS
- Trusted Advisor
- X-Ray
- ...
Supported 3rd party services:
- Bitbucket
- HTTP(S)
- Jenkins
- New Relic
- RSS Feed
- Sumo Logic
- Uptime Robot
Keep your system running!
More than 500 teams close 5,000+ alerts every week.
Thousands of AWS accounts are monitored by marbot.
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About the inventors
Andreas and Michael Wittig built marbot during the Serverless Chatbot Competition 2016. Since then, they have added new features and improved marbot step by step.
Andreas and Michael are consultants, entrepreneurs, and authors. As consultants, they train, coach, and consult their clients on all things Amazon Web Services (AWS). In their role as an entrepreneur, they are building marbot. They published two books Amazon Web Services in Action and Rapid Docker on AWS, and are blogging at cloudonaut.io. They use marbot to get notified of any issues daily.