zabbix-cloudwatch

Cloudwatch integration for Zabbix 3.x

Python 2.7.x

1. Create specialized user account in AWS and grant it permissions for required services and API calls (for example describe_instances() for EC2)
2. Clone github repo: https://github.com/wawastein/zabbix-cloudwatch
3. Copy contents of zabbix-scripts into /usr/lib/zabbix directory, change owner of the dir and its contents to user under which you run Zabbix
4. Install system-wide boto3 package
5. Import cloudwatch_template.xml into Zabbix
6. Put credentials of account created in (1) into /usr/lib/zabbix/scripts/conf/aws.conf
7. Create host with 0.0.0.0 as interface and link it to the template. Change macros ACCOUNT and REGION to correspond to your case:

8. Enable/Disable all discovery rules/items/triggers you think necessary, add new or modify existing ones.

Default template has rules and items for following services:

• EC2 (requires describe_instances() API call permissions)
• RDS (describe_db_instances() API call)
• ELB (describe_load_balancers() API call)
• EMR (list_clusters() API call)

Detailed overview at: https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/49943587/posts/1417437611

Hit me up on twitter @wawastein if you got any questions, submit pull requests, fork all you want, and Papa bless.