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Configure Amazon SNS for Alerting

Use the Grafana Alerting - Amazon SNS integration to send notifications to Amazon SNS when your alerts are firing.

Before you begin

To configure Amazon SNS to receive alert notifications, complete the following steps.

1. Create a new topic in https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns.
2. Open the topic and create a new subscription.
3. Choose the protocol HTTPS.
4. Copy the URL.

For more information, refer to Amazon SNS documentation.

Procedure

To create your Amazon SNS integration in Grafana Alerting, complete the following steps.

1. Navigate to Alerts & IRM -> Alerting -> Contact points.
2. Click + Add contact point.
3. Enter a contact point name.
4. From the Integration list, select AWS SNS.
5. Copy in the URL from above into the The Amazon SNS API URL field.
6. Click Test to check that your integration works.
7. Click Save contact point.

Next steps

The Amazon SNS contact point is ready to receive alert notifications.

To add this contact point to your alert, complete the following steps.

1. In Grafana, navigate to Alerting > Alert rules.
2. Edit or create a new alert rule.
3. Scroll down to the Configure labels and notifications section.
4. Under Notifications click Select contact point.
5. From the drop-down menu, select the previously created contact point.
6. Click Save rule and exit.