AOSSEC02-BP03 Monitor real-time events in your OpenSearch Service domains
Track real-time events in your OpenSearch Service domains using Amazon EventBridge, enabling automated actions and notifications to improve visibility and response times.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium
Desired outcome: Real-time events in OpenSearch Service domains are tracked and monitored according to your requirements. Automated actions and notifications are configured for relevant events if required.
Benefits of establishing this best practice:
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Enhanced monitoring: You can use Amazon EventBridge to monitor real-time events in OpenSearch Service domains to receive notifications about specific events that affect your domains, improving overall visibility and awareness.
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Automated actions: By creating rules to determine which events are relevant and defining automated actions to take when a rule initiates, organizations can streamline responses to domain-related events and reduce the risk of manual errors or delays.
Implementation guidance
Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with Amazon EventBridge, which provides notifications about specific events that affect your domains in near real-time. This integration also provides a transition from Amazon CloudWatch Events.
With this setup, you can create simple rules to determine which events are relevant to you and define automated actions to take when a rule occurs. Amazon EventBridge can notify you of various events related to your OpenSearch Service domain, such as software updates, Auto-Tune activities, cluster health changes, VPC endpoint modifications, node retirements, and domain errors.
To create a Lambda function that listens to these events, see Tutorial: Listening for Amazon OpenSearch Service EventBridge events and Tutorial: Sending Amazon SNS alerts for available software updates.
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