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name: "AWS CloudWatch Alarm Triager"
slug: "aws-cloudwatch-alarm-triager"
description: "Triages AWS CloudWatch alarms by correlating alarm state changes with CloudTrail events and EC2 instance health using boto3. Classifies alarms by severity, identifies root cause candidates, and updates OpsGenie alerts."
github_stars: 3607
verification: "listed"
source: "https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3"
category: "Runbooks & Diagnostics"
framework: "Cursor"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "aws/aws-sdk-js-v3"
  github_stars: 3607
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# AWS CloudWatch Alarm Triager

Triages AWS CloudWatch alarms by correlating alarm state changes with CloudTrail events and EC2 instance health using boto3. Classifies alarms by severity, identifies root cause candidates, and updates OpsGenie alerts.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Let’s walk through setting up a project that depends on DynamoDB from the SDK and makes a simple service call. The following steps use yarn as an example. These steps assume you have Node.js and yarn already installed.
- git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3.git
- yarn && yarn test:all
- yarn pack .

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments,
- [Node.js and ECMAScript Version Support Policy](#nodejs-and-ecmascript-version-support-policy)
- Create a new Node.js project.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- Inside of the project, run: yarn add @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb. Adding packages results in update in lock file, [yarn.lock](https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/qa/#should-lockfiles-be-committed-to-the-repository) or [p...
- Create a new file called index.js, create a DynamoDB service client and send a request.

- Source: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/aws-cloudwatch-alarm-triager/)