Setting up AWS Integration

A step-by-step guide of how to connect to your AWS account and give Temperstack permissions

AWS

Temperstack looks for alerts across all of your AWS services, including EC2, RDS, ELB, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, and more.

AWS resources

Resource types available for auto Alert setup
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS)
AWS Simple Email Service (SES)
AWS DynamoDB
AWS CloudFront
AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
AWS Kinesis
AWS Lambda
AWS MQ | RabbitMQ |ActiveMQ
AWS Kafka | Kafka Broker
AWS ElastiCache - Redis & Memcache
AWS DMS
AWS Cloudfront
AWS API Gateway

Requirements

Installing the Temperstack AWS integration requires either an active trial or paid account to get started. You will also need to meet the following requirements:

• Access to create IAM policies and users in your AWS account

Installation Process

1. First follow the instructions in the IAM Set Up guide to create an IAM Policy and User to give Temperstack programmatic access to your AWS account. Keep track of the Access Key ID and Secret access key in the final step of the create user process.

2. Log in to Temperstack and navigate to the Integrations page via Admin > Integrations

Admin > Integrations

3. On the integrations page click on AWS

AWS > Click on Next button

4. Enter the access and secret key you created earlier

5. The product takes some time to scan through AWS and give an Alert comprehensiveness score (ALCOM) score

ALCOM Score

6. On the integrations view (admin-> Integrations ) you will see the AWS icon annotated with "Integrated"

IAM Setup Guide

Creating IAM User: Temperstack with Policy

Frequently Asked Questions

Faq 1. Does Temperstack modify my AWS resources?

A: The AWS integration specifically does not make any modifications to your AWS infrastructure. All of the API calls are read-only.

FAQ 2. Which AWS regions are supported?

The AWS integration currently collects data in the following regions

• us-east-1

• us-east-2

• us-west-1

• us-west-2

• ca-central-1

• eu-central-1

• eu-west-1

• eu-west-2

• eu-west-3

• ap-northeast-1

• ap-northeast-2

• ap-southeast-1

• ap-southeast-2

• ap-south-1

• sa-east-1

FAQ 3. Can I have multiple AWS integrations?

Currently, Temperstack supports only one AWS account integration in one account.