Guardian Alarm Tags

With the latest Guardian version and the latest Guardian Bearse feature, tags can be applied to Cloudwatch alarms created by guardian. The tags are applied after the Guardian stack is created/updated in the codepipeline using the AWS SDK as Cloudformation doesn’t support alarm tags.

Default Guardian Tags

Guardian will add the following default tags to each alarm

guardian:resource:id
guardian:resource:group
guardian:alarm:name
guardian:alarm:metric
guardian:alarm:severity

Custom Tags

Additional tags can added through the alarms yaml configuration file. They can be applied globally to all alarms, to all alarms in a resource group or a specific alarm.

Global Tags

Global tags are applied to every alarm created by guardian. Add the GlobalTags key at the top level of the alarms yaml config with key:value pairs.

GlobalTags:
  key: value
  env: production

Resource Group Tags

Resource group tags are applied to every alarm in a guardian resource group using the Templates section to add the tags.

Templates:
  Ec2Instance:
    GroupOverrides:
      Tags:
        key: value
        env: production

Specific Alarm Tags

To add tags to a specific guardian alarm you can apply the tags in the Templates section of the alarms yaml config.

Templates:
  Ec2Instance:
    CPUUtilizationHigh:
      Tags:
        key: value
        alarm-action: restart ec2 instance

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