Monitoring: Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM)
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is a free and easy-to-use service that helps you to automate the creation, retention, and deletion of EBS snapshots and AMIs. You can use it to protect valuable data by setting up regular backups or to create standardized AMIs that can be refreshed at regular intervals.
Why should you monitor Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM)?
It is crucial to monitor DLM policies to get notified in case creating or deleting EBS snapshots fails. Monitoring DLM avoids a broken backup system leading to data loss, for example.
How does monitoring Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) work?
Without further ado, marbot monitors Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). Here is how an notification delivered to a Microsoft Teams channel looks like.
And here is the same alert in Slack.
How to setup monitoring of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM)?
marbot works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. Please select your platform and follow the Getting started guide.
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