This integration allows you to create Uptime incidents from AWS CloudWatch automatically.

Connect AWS CloudWatch and Uptime

1. Go to Integrations → Importing data.
2. Find the AWS CloudWatch card and click Add.
3. Name your integration (e.g., "Backend service") and click Save changes.
4. Copy the Endpoint URL.

In AWS SNS

1. In your AWS console, go to Simple Notification Service (SNS) → Topics → Create topic.
2. Enter a Topic name (e.g., UptimeCloudWatchTopic) and click Create topic.
3. Go to Subscriptions → Create subscription.
4. For Topic ARN, select the topic you just created.
5. For Protocol, select HTTPS.
6. For Endpoint, paste the URL you copied from Better Stack.
7. Click Create subscription. AWS will send a confirmation request to our webhook, and we will confirm it automatically.

In AWS CloudWatch

1. Go to CloudWatch → Alarms and select the alarm you want to configure.
2. Click Edit.
3. In Step 2: Configure actions, add two notification actions:
   • One for the In alarm state.
   • One for the OK state.
4. For both actions, select the SNS topic you created earlier.
5. Click Update alarm.

You're done. 🎉