Using Alarm Actions with Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

Using alarm actions, you can create alarms that automatically stop, terminate, reboot, or recover your Amazon EC2 instances. You can use the stop or terminate actions when you no longer need an instance to be running. You can use the reboot and recover actions to automatically reboot those instances.

The examples below show how to:

• Enable actions for specified alarms using EnableAlarmActions.
• Disable actions for specified alarms using DisableAlarmActions.

All the example code for the AWS SDK for PHP is available here on GitHub.

Credentials

Before running the example code, configure your AWS credentials, as described in Credentials.

Enable Alarm Actions

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Aws\CloudWatch\CloudWatchClient;
use Aws\Exception\AwsException;

$alarmName = "<ALARM_NAME>";
$client = new CloudWatchClient([
    'profile' => 'default',
    'region' => 'us-west-2',
    'version' => '2010-08-01'
]);
try {
    $result = $client->enableAlarmActions([
        'AlarmNames' => array($alarmName) //REQUIRED
    ]);
    var_dump($result);
} catch (AwsException $e) {
    // output error message if fails
    error_log($e->getMessage());
}

Disable Alarm Actions

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Aws\CloudWatch\CloudWatchClient;
use Aws\Exception\AwsException;

$alarmName = "<ALARM_NAME>";
$client = new CloudWatchClient([
    'profile' => 'default',
    'region' => 'us-west-2',
    'version' => '2010-08-01'
]);
try {
    $result = $client->disableAlarmActions([
        'AlarmNames' => array($alarmName) //REQUIRED
    ]);
    var_dump($result);
} catch (AwsException $e) {
    // output error message if fails
    error_log($e->getMessage());
}