Create Alarm Using Terraform Kodekloud Engineer Task Success

Question :  The Nautilus DevOps team is setting up monitoring in their AWS account. As part of this, they need to create a CloudWatch alarm.

Using Terraform, perform the following:

Task Details:

Create a CloudWatch alarm named xfusion-alarm.

The alarm should monitor CPU utilization of an EC2 instance.

Trigger the alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 80%.

Set the evaluation period to 5 minutes.

Use a single evaluation period.

Ensure that the entire configuration is implemented using Terraform. The Terraform working directory is /home/bob/terraform. Create the main.tf file (do not create a different .tf file) to accomplish this task.

Note: Right-click under the EXPLORER section in VS Code and select Open in Integrated Terminal to launch the terminal.

Please Note:-  Perform the below commands based on your question server,  user name & other details that might differ as per the task.

Solution:  

1. In VS Code Editor create a new file  main.tf 

      (Refer Video below for better understanding )

Code you will get on Git Lab repository 

https://gitlab.com/nb-tech-support/devops/-/blob/master/Terraform

resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "xfusion-alarm" { alarm_name = "xfusion-alarm" comparison_operator = "GreaterThanThreshold" evaluation_periods = 1 period = 300 metric_name = "CPUUtilization" namespace = "AWS/EC2" statistic = "Average" threshold = 80 }

2  Execute given below command one another.

terraform init terraform plan terraform apply

3. Click on Finish & Confirm to complete the task successful

Happy Learning!!!!

Apart from this if you need more clarity,  I have made a  tutorial video on this , 

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