Add Feature, that detects invalid CloudWatch Dimension names

[kapilt]

invalid dimension names on what?

[portert89]

Working on a Boto script that paginates through CloudWatch alarms in the state:"INSUFFICIENT_DATA", collects the dimension's name and value variables. Runs those against a dictionary list of valid dimension names which are then filtered out, outputting the alarm names of incorrectly configured alarms mainly for autoscaling groups, however can work on just about any type of alarm.

For Example: Name=AutoScalingGroup

instead of the correct

Name=AutoScalingGroupName

[thisisshi]

@portert89 you should be able to do this with value filters currently, though you will need to list out all the invalid dimension names yourself:

policies:
  - name: bad-alarms
    resource: alarm
    filters:
      - "StateValue": "INSUFFICIENT_DATA"
      - not:
        - or:
          - type: value
            key: Dimensions[].Name
            value: AutoScalingGroupName
            value_type: swap
            op: in
          - type: value
            key: Dimensions[].Name
            value: LoadBalancerName
            value_type: swap
            op: in
# other dimensions go under here