Case study · Monitoring · UK national lottery operator

Alarms for a whole AWS organisation

A Python data source finds resources across every account at plan time, and Terraform generates their CloudWatch alarms from per-service specs. A daily GitHub Actions run keeps it current.

Where: UK national lottery operator
Stack: Terraform, Python, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions

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Overview

A Python data source finds resources across every account at plan time, and Terraform generates their CloudWatch alarms from per-service specs. A daily GitHub Actions run keeps it current.

[In your words: which services the specs cover, how the daily run reconciles alarms with the resources that came and went, and who picks the alerts up.]

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