Turn on alarms for your portals in Amazon IoT SiteWise - Amazon IoT SiteWise
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Turn on alarms for your portals in Amazon IoT SiteWise

Note

The SiteWise Monitor feature will no longer be open to new customers starting November 7, 2025 . If you would like to use SiteWise Monitor, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see SiteWise Monitor availability change.

Note

End of support notice: On May 20, 2026, Amazon will end support for Amazon IoT Events. After May 20, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the Amazon IoT Events console or Amazon IoT Events resources. For more information, see Amazon IoT Events end of support.

You can enable the alarms feature supported by Amazon IoT Events for your portals so that portal administrators can create, edit, and delete Amazon IoT Events alarm models in your SiteWise Monitor portals. Project owners can configure alarms. Project viewers can view alarm details. This section explains how you can use the Amazon IoT SiteWise console to enable the alarms feature for your portals.

Important

  • You can't create external alarms in your portals.

  • If you want to send alarm notifications, you must choose IAM Identity Center for the user authentication service.

  • The alarm notifications feature isn't available in the China (Beijing) Amazon Web Services Region.

When you configure and create a portal, you can enable alarms and alarm notifications in Step 2 Additional features. Based on the user authentication service, choose one of the following options:

IAM Identity Center
Additional features page for enabling alarms for portals.
To enable alarms for a portal

  1. (Optional) Choose Enable alarms.

    1. For Amazon IoT SiteWise access role, use an existing role or create a role with the required permissions. This role requires the iotevents:BatchPutMessage permission and a trust relationship that allows iot.amazonaws.com and iotevents.amazonaws.com to assume the role.

  2. (Optional) Choose Enable alarm notifications.

    1. For Sender, choose the sender.

      Important

      You must verify the sender email address in Amazon SES. For more information, see Verifying email addresses in Amazon SES, in the Amazon Simple Email Service Developer Guide.

    2. For Amazon Lambda role, use an existing role or create a role with the required permissions. This role requires the lambda:InvokeFunction and sso-directory:DescribeUserpermissions and a trust relationship that allows iotevents.amazonaws.com and lambda.amazonaws.com to assume the role.

    3. For Amazon Lambda functions, choose an existing Lambda function or create a function that manages alarm notifications. For more information, see Managing alarm notifications in the Amazon IoT Events Developer Guide.

IAM
Additional features page for enabling alarms for portals.
To enable alarms for a portal

  • (Optional) Choose Enable alarms.

    1. For Amazon IoT SiteWise access role, use an existing role or create a role with the required permissions. This role requires the iotevents:BatchPutMessage permission and a trust relationship that allows iot.amazonaws.com and iotevents.amazonaws.com to assume the role.

For more information about alarms in SiteWise Monitor, see Monitoring with alarms in the Amazon IoT SiteWise Application Guide.