Configure alarm mute rules

To create an alarm mute rule

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, and then choose Mute Rules tab

3. Click Create Alarm Mute Rule button, which would open a wizard

4. Under Alarm mute rule details section, enter a name and optional description for your alarm mute rule

5. Under Schedule pattern section, choose one time or recurring schedule

   1. If you choose one-time occurrence,

      1. Select the Timezone to apply the mute schedules

      2. Choose a start date and time, to define when the mute rule should become active

      3. Choose end date and time, to define when the mute rule should expire

   2. If you choose Recurring schedule, you will have two options. Either to use the Console form or use cron expression to configure the recurring time schedules.

      1. Under Schedule creation type choose "Specify date, time and recurrence" to use the Console form

         1. Choose the Timezone to apply the mute rule

         2. Choose Start date and time, to define when the mute rule should become active

         3. Choose Duration, to define how long the mute rule should last once becomes active

         4. Choose Repeat, to define how the schedule should repeat like every day, every month, every weekend or on specific days during the week.

         5. Choose optional Until, to define when the mute schedule should expire. Default option is "Indefinitely"

      2. Under Schedule creation type choose "Set from a cron expression" to configure schedules using cron expressions

         1. Under Cron expression section enter the desired cron expression values.

         2. Choose Duration, to define how long the mute rule should last once becomes active

         3. Under optional Timeframe section, enter optional start and end date and time to define when the mute schedule should become active and expire.

6. Under Target alarms section, choose the alarms from the drop down to which you want to apply this mute rule

7. Under Set tags for your mute rule section, attach tags to your alarm mute rule. A tag is a key-value pair applied to a resource to hold metadata about that resource. For more information see What are tags?

8. Select Create alarm mute rule button to create the mute rule

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms

3. Select the alarms that you want to mute from the list

4. Under Actions menu choose Mute

5. Under the Quick mute section choose the predefined time periods 15min, 1h, 3h or select Mute until to set desired time period

6. Click Confirm to mute the alarms immediately until the chosen time period

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms

3. Select the alarms that you want to mute from the list

4. Under Actions menu choose Mute

5. Choose Apply existing mute rules, which should open a wizard

6. Select the mute rules from the drop down to which you want to add the alarms

7. Click Apply