Responding to alarms in AWS IoT Events - AWS IoT Events

End of support notice: On May 20, 2026, AWS will end support for AWS IoT Events. After May 20, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS IoT Events console or AWS IoT Events resources. For more information, see AWS IoT Events end of support.

Responding to alarms in AWS IoT Events

Responding to alarms effectively is an important aspect of managing IoT systems with AWS IoT Events. Explore various ways to configure and handle alarms, including: setting up notification channels, defining escalation procedures, and implementing automated response actions. Learn to create nuanced alarm conditions, prioritize alerts, and integrate with other AWS services to build a responsive alarm management system for your IoT applications.

If you enabled acknowledge flow, you receive notifications when the alarm state changes. To respond to the alarm, you can acknowledge, disable, enable, reset, or snooze the alarm.

Console

The following shows you how to respond to an alarm in the AWS IoT Events console.

  1. Sign in to the AWS IoT Events console.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarm models.

  3. Choose the target alarm model.

  4. In the List of alarms section, choose the target alarm.

  5. You can choose one of the following options from Actions:

    • Acknowledge - The alarm changes to the ACKNOWLEDGED state.

    • Disable - The alarm changes to the DISABLED state.

    • Enable - The alarm changes to the NORMAL state.

    • Reset - The alarm changes to the NORMAL state.

    • Snooze, and then do the following:

      1. Choose the Snooze length or enter a Custom snooze length.

      2. Choose Save.

      The alarm changes to the SNOOZE_DISABLED state

    For more information about the alarm states, see Acknowledge flow.

API

To respond to one or more alarms, you can use the following AWS IoT Events API operations: