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AWS Health

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| Version | 2.38.2 (View all) |
| Compatible Kibana version(s) | 8.16.2 or higher |
| Supported Serverless project types
What’s this? | Security
Observability |
| Subscription level
What’s this? | Basic |

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AWS Health metrics provide insights into the health of your AWS environment by monitoring various aspects such as open issues, scheduled maintenance events, security advisories, compliance status, notification counts, and service disruptions. These metrics help you proactively identify and address issues impacting your AWS resources, ensuring the reliability, security, and compliance of your infrastructure.

The AWS Health integration collects one type of data: metrics.

Metrics provide insight into the operational health of your AWS environment, including the status of AWS services, scheduled changes, and notifications about potential issues that could impact your resources. Metrics are gathered with the AWS Health API

See more details in the Metrics reference.

You need Elasticsearch for storing and searching your data and Kibana for visualizing and managing it. You can use our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is recommended, or self-manage the Elastic Stack on your own hardware.

Before using any AWS integration you will need:

  • AWS Credentials to connect with your AWS account.
  • AWS Permissions to make sure the user you’re using to connect has permission to share the relevant data.

For more details about these requirements, please take a look at the AWS integration documentation.

To collect AWS Health metrics, you would need specific AWS permissions to access the necessary data. Here’s a list of permissions required for an IAM user to collect AWS Health metrics:

  • health:DescribeAffectedEntities
  • health:DescribeEventDetails
  • health:DescribeEvents

If you want to collect data from two or more AWS services, consider using the AWS integration. When you configure the AWS integration, you can collect data from as many AWS services as you’d like.

For step-by-step instructions on how to set up an integration, see the Getting started guide.

Period
(string) Reporting interval. Recommended value is 24h.

The awshealth data stream collects AWS Health metrics from AWS.