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Accelerate tags using Resource Tagger - AMS Accelerate User Guide

Accelerate tags using Resource Tagger

The tag-based Alarm Manager manages the lifecycle of per-resource CloudWatch alarms; however, it requires that the managed resources have specific tags defined by AMS Accelerate. To use the Resource Tagger to apply the default set of AMS-managed alarms to both Linux and Windows based instances, follow these steps.

  1. Browse to the AppConfig console within your account.

  2. Select the ResourceTagger application.

  3. Select the Configuration profiles tab, and then select CustomerManagedTags.

  4. Click Create to create a new profile.

  5. Select JSON and define your configuration. For more examples of filter and platform definition, see Accelerate Resource Tagger.

    {
"AWS::EC2::Instance": {
   "MonitorAllInstances": {
       "Enabled": true,
       "Filter": {
           "Platform": "*"
       },
       "Tags": [
           {
               "Key": "ams:rt:ams-managed",
               "Value": "true"
           }
       ]
   }
}
}

  6. Click Create hosted configuration version.

  7. Click Start deployment.

  8. Define the following deployment details:

    Environment: AMSInfrastructure Hosted configuration version: <Select the version that you have just created> 
               Deployment Strategy: AMSNoBakeDeployment

  9. Click Start deployment.

Your instances become tagged with "ams:rt:ams-managed": "true" which ensures that additional "ams:rt:ams-monitoring-policy": "ams-monitored" and "ams:rt:ams-monitoring-policy-platform": "ams-monitored-linux" are applied to the instances. These tags then result in the appropriate alarms being created for the instance. For more information about this process, see Monitoring in Accelerate.