terraform-aws-rds-cloudwatch-sns-alarms

Terraform module that configures important RDS alerts using CloudWatch and sends them to an SNS topic.

Create a set of sane RDS CloudWatch alerts for monitoring the health of an RDS instance.

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Security & Compliance

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Benchmark	Description
	Infrastructure Security Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, KUBERNETES Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, AWS Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, AZURE Compliance
	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance
	National Institute of Standards and Technology Compliance
	Information Security Management System, ISO/IEC 27001 Compliance
	Service Organization Control 2 Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, GCP Compliance
	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Compliance

Usage

IMPORTANT: We do not pin modules to versions in our examples because of the difficulty of keeping the versions in the documentation in sync with the latest released versions. We highly recommend that in your code you pin the version to the exact version you are using so that your infrastructure remains stable, and update versions in a systematic way so that they do not catch you by surprise.

Also, because of a bug in the Terraform registry (hashicorp/terraform#21417), the registry shows many of our inputs as required when in fact they are optional. The table below correctly indicates which inputs are required.

area	metric	comparison operator	threshold	rationale
Storage	BurstBalance	`<`	20 %	20 % of credits allow you to burst for a few minutes which gives you enough time to a) fix the inefficiency, b) add capacity or c) switch to io1 storage type.
Storage	DiskQueueDepth	`>`	64	This number is calculated from our experience with RDS workloads.
Storage	FreeStorageSpace	`<`	2 GB	2 GB usually provides enough time to a) fix why so much space is consumed or b) add capacity. You can also modify this value to 10% of your database capacity.
CPU	CPUUtilization	`>`	80 %	Queuing theory tells us the latency increases exponentially with utilization. In practice, we see higher latency when utilization exceeds 80% and unacceptable high latency with utilization above 90%
CPU	CPUCreditBalance	`<`	20	One credit equals 1 minute of 100% usage of a vCPU. 20 credits should give you enough time to a) fix the inefficiency, b) add capacity or c) don't use t2 type.
Memory	FreeableMemory	`<`	64 MB	This number is calculated from our experience with RDS workloads.
Memory	SwapUsage	`>`	256 MB	Sometimes you can not entirely avoid swapping. But once the database accesses paged memory, it will slow down.

Examples

See the examples/ directory for working examples.

resource "aws_db_instance" "default" {
  allocated_storage    = 10
  storage_type         = "gp2"
  engine               = "mysql"
  engine_version       = "5.7"
  instance_class       = "db.t2.micro"
  identifier_prefix    = "rds-server-example"
  name                 = "mydb"
  username             = "foo"
  password             = "foobarbaz"
  parameter_group_name = "default.mysql5.7"
  apply_immediately    = "true"
  skip_final_snapshot  = "true"
}

module "rds_alarms" {
  source         = "git::https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-rds-cloudwatch-sns-alarms.git?ref=tags/0.1.5"
  db_instance_id = "${aws_db_instance.default.id}"
}

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 0.13.0
aws	>= 2.0

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 2.0

Modules

Name	Source	Version
label	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0
subscription_label	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0
this	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0
topic_label	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0

Resources

Name	Type
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.burst_balance_too_low	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.cpu_credit_balance_too_low	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.cpu_utilization_too_high	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.disk_queue_depth_too_high	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.free_storage_space_too_low	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.freeable_memory_too_low	resource
aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.swap_usage_too_high	resource
aws_db_event_subscription.default	resource
aws_sns_topic.default	resource
aws_sns_topic_policy.default	resource
aws_caller_identity.default	data source
aws_iam_policy_document.sns_topic_policy	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
additional_tag_map	Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in `tags_as_list_of_maps`. Not added to `tags` or `id`. This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.	`map(string)`	`{}`	no
attributes	ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. `workers` or `cluster`) to add to `id`, in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the `delimiter` and treated as a single ID element.	`list(string)`	`[]`	no
burst_balance_threshold	The minimum percent of General Purpose SSD (gp2) burst-bucket I/O credits available.	`number`	`20`	no
context	Single object for setting entire context at once. See description of individual variables for details. Leave string and numeric variables as `null` to use default value. Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object, except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.	`any`	{ "additional_tag_map": {}, "attributes": [], "delimiter": null, "descriptor_formats": {}, "enabled": true, "environment": null, "id_length_limit": null, "label_key_case": null, "label_order": [], "label_value_case": null, "labels_as_tags": [ "unset" ], "name": null, "namespace": null, "regex_replace_chars": null, "stage": null, "tags": {}, "tenant": null }	no
cpu_credit_balance_threshold	The minimum number of CPU credits (t2 instances only) available.	`number`	`20`	no
cpu_utilization_threshold	The maximum percentage of CPU utilization.	`number`	`80`	no
db_instance_id	The instance ID of the RDS database instance that you want to monitor.	`string`	n/a	yes
delimiter	Delimiter to be used between ID elements. Defaults to `-` (hyphen). Set to `""` to use no delimiter at all.	`string`	`null`	no
descriptor_formats	Describe additional descriptors to be output in the `descriptors` output map. Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form `{<br> format = string<br> labels = list(string)<br>}` (Type is `any` so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.) `format` is a Terraform format string to be passed to the `format()` function. `labels` is a list of labels, in order, to pass to `format()` function. Label values will be normalized before being passed to `format()` so they will be identical to how they appear in `id`. Default is `{}` (`descriptors` output will be empty).	`any`	`{}`	no
disk_queue_depth_threshold	The maximum number of outstanding IOs (read/write requests) waiting to access the disk.	`number`	`64`	no
enabled	Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources	`bool`	`null`	no
environment	ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'	`string`	`null`	no
free_storage_space_threshold	The minimum amount of available storage space in Byte.	`number`	`2000000000`	no
freeable_memory_threshold	The minimum amount of available random access memory in Byte.	`number`	`64000000`	no
id_length_limit	Limit `id` to this many characters (minimum 6). Set to `0` for unlimited length. Set to `null` for keep the existing setting, which defaults to `0`. Does not affect `id_full`.	`number`	`null`	no
label_key_case	Controls the letter case of the `tags` keys (label names) for tags generated by this module. Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the `tags` input. Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper`. Default value: `title`.	`string`	`null`	no
label_order	The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the `id`. Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"]. You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.	`list(string)`	`null`	no
label_value_case	Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in `id`, set as tag values, and output by this module individually. Does not affect values of tags passed in via the `tags` input. Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper` and `none` (no transformation). Set this to `title` and set `delimiter` to `""` to yield Pascal Case IDs. Default value: `lower`.	`string`	`null`	no
labels_as_tags	Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the `tags` output. Default is to include all labels. Tags with empty values will not be included in the `tags` output. Set to `[]` to suppress all generated tags. Notes: The value of the `name` tag, if included, will be the `id`, not the `name`. Unlike other `null-label` inputs, the initial setting of `labels_as_tags` cannot be changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.	`set(string)`	[ "default" ]	no
name	ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'. This is the only ID element not also included as a `tag`. The "name" tag is set to the full `id` string. There is no tag with the value of the `name` input.	`string`	`null`	no
namespace	ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique	`string`	`null`	no
regex_replace_chars	Terraform regular expression (regex) string. Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements. If not set, `"/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/"` is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.	`string`	`null`	no
stage	ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'	`string`	`null`	no
swap_usage_threshold	The maximum amount of swap space used on the DB instance in Byte.	`number`	`256000000`	no
tags	Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`). Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.	`map(string)`	`{}`	no
tenant	ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for	`string`	`null`	no

Outputs

Name	Description
sns_topic_arn	The ARN of the SNS topic

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code
  test/%                              Run Terraform commands in the examples/complete folder; e.g. make test/plan

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