How to integrate Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus with Slack
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for metrics to securely monitor container environments at scale. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus lets you utilize open source Prometheus query language (PromQL) to monitor containerized workload performance without having to manage the underlying infrastructure required for the ingestion, storage, alerting, and querying of operational metrics. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus automatically scales with your workloads, and it is integrated with AWS security services to allow fast and secure data access. Collect Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) environments by utilizing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry or Prometheus servers as collection agents.
Slack is a business communication platform offering persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. Many of our customers want to quickly alert a Slack channel when Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus detects customer-impacting performance issues with critical applications. This post provides you with prescriptive guidance on configuring Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Alert Manager to publish alerts to a Slack channel using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Lambda.
Solution Overview
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