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Configure Amazon SNS for Alerting
Use the Grafana Alerting - Amazon SNS integration to send notifications to Amazon SNS when your alerts are firing.
Before you begin
To configure Amazon SNS to receive alert notifications, complete the following steps.
- Create a new topic in https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns.
- Open the topic and create a new subscription.
- Choose the protocol HTTPS.
- Copy the URL.
For more information, refer to Amazon SNS documentation.
Procedure
To create your Amazon SNS integration in Grafana Alerting, complete the following steps.
- Navigate to Alerts & IRM -> Alerting -> Contact points.
- Click + Add contact point.
- Enter a contact point name.
- From the Integration list, select AWS SNS.
- Copy in the URL from above into the The Amazon SNS API URL field.
- Click Test to check that your integration works.
- Click Save contact point.
Next steps
The Amazon SNS contact point is ready to receive alert notifications.
To add this contact point to your alert, complete the following steps.
- In Grafana, navigate to Alerting > Alert rules.
- Edit or create a new alert rule.
- Scroll down to the Configure labels and notifications section.
- Under Notifications click Select contact point.
- From the drop-down menu, select the previously created contact point.
- Click Save rule and exit.
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