AWS ALB DataDog monitors

How to use this module

module "datadog-monitors-aws-alb" {
  source = "git::ssh://git@bitbucket.org/morea/terraform.feature.datadog.git//cloud/aws/alb?ref={revision}"

  environment = "${var.environment}"
  message = "${module.datadog-message-alerting.alerting-message}"
}

Purpose

Creates DataDog monitors with the following checks :

  • ALB no healthy hosts
  • ALB latency too high
  • ALB http code 5xx percent to high
  • ALB http code 4xx percent to high
  • ALB target http code 5xx percent to high
  • ALB target http code 4xx percent to high

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
alb_no_healthy_instances_message Custom message for ALB no healthy instances monitor string `` no
alb_no_healthy_instances_silenced Groups to mute for ALB no healthy instances monitor map <map> no
delay Delay in seconds for the metric evaluation string 900 no
environment Architecture environment string - yes
filter_tags_custom Tags used for custom filtering when filter_tags_use_defaults is false string * no
filter_tags_use_defaults Use default filter tags convention string true no
httpcode_elb_4xx_message Custom message for ALB httpcode 4xx monitor string `` no
httpcode_elb_4xx_silenced Groups to mute for ALB httpcode 4xx monitor map <map> no
httpcode_elb_4xx_threshold_critical loadbalancer 4xx critical threshold in percentage string 80 no
httpcode_elb_4xx_threshold_warning loadbalancer 4xx warning threshold in percentage string 60 no
httpcode_elb_5xx_message Custom message for ALB httpcode 5xx monitor string `` no
httpcode_elb_5xx_silenced Groups to mute for ALB httpcode 5xx monitor map <map> no
httpcode_elb_5xx_threshold_critical loadbalancer 5xxcritical threshold in percentage string 80 no
httpcode_elb_5xx_threshold_warning loadbalancer 5xx warning threshold in percentage string 60 no
httpcode_target_4xx_message Custom message for ALB target httpcode 4xx monitor string `` no
httpcode_target_4xx_silenced Groups to mute for ALB target httpcode 4xx monitor map <map> no
httpcode_target_4xx_threshold_critical target 4xx critical threshold in percentage string 80 no
httpcode_target_4xx_threshold_warning target 4xx warning threshold in percentage string 60 no
httpcode_target_5xx_message Custom message for ALB target httpcode 5xx monitor string `` no
httpcode_target_5xx_silenced Groups to mute for ALB target httpcode 5xx monitor map <map> no
httpcode_target_5xx_threshold_critical target 5xx critical threshold in percentage string 80 no
httpcode_target_5xx_threshold_warning target 5xx warning threshold in percentage string 60 no
latency_message Custom message for ALB latency monitor string `` no
latency_silenced Groups to mute for ALB latency monitor map <map> no
latency_threshold_critical latency critical threshold in milliseconds string 1000 no
latency_threshold_warning latency warning threshold in milliseconds string 500 no
message Message sent when a monitor is triggered string - yes

DataDog blog: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-application-load-balancer/

AWS ALB metrics documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.html