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AHA is an incident management & communication framework to provide real-time alert customers when there are active AWS event(s). For customers with AWS Organizations, customers can get aggregated active account level events of all the accounts in the Organization. Customers not using AWS Organizations still benefit alerting at the account level.
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Question: Is it possible to simulate Health events in AWS? #35

Closed MikeJansen closed 8 months ago

MikeJansen commented 2 years ago

This is an AWS question, but I figured you might know due to the nature of this project.

I have recently installed AHA for our organization. I was able to test some events by setting the hours back to 4000 for one lambda run. The problem is that only issues showed up for the timeframe before I had enabled Organizational View for Health. I would like to test other event types proactively instead of waiting for them to happen in the wild.

Is there a mechanism in AWS that allows test health events to be created that come in through the API's like a normal event? If not, how do you test the code for this project?

mrg2k8 commented 2 years ago

Asked our TAM this question and the solution was to change the EventSearchBack parameter from 1 hour to a value that catches some older AWS Health events.

maplion commented 2 years ago

I did exactly what @mrg2k8 suggested to test, but it would be nice if there was a built-in way to send it a test message so you can see the throughput to your communication endpoint.

davedimm commented 1 year ago

@maplion Another option in addition to what @mrg2k8 mentioned around increasing EventSearchBack is to delete the DynamoDB entry for a particular event. That coupled with the event search-back will cause AHA to re-process the event as if it just occurred.