Question about Cloudwatch Alarm about terraform-aws-secure-baseline HOT 4 CLOSED

@JoostSaanen
Each alarm has a corresponding metric filter pattern associated, this pattern for S3BucketPolicyChanges for example.
Relevant CloudTrail logs can be retrieved by querying the above filter pattern to the CloudWatch Log Group. There are two ways to get this done from AWS Mamagement Console.

1. Open CloudWatch Metrics then use "View logs" to apply the corresponding filter pattern to CloudWatch Logs. To get from metrics to logs section in the AWS doc describes in more detail.
2. Open CloudWatch Log Group then directly type the filter pattern. See here.

Hope it would help, please let me know if you have other questions! :)

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@nozaq Thanks for your time for answering my question!

I was thinking of a way to integrate the relevant Cloudtrail logs into the message of the post to the topic. I have an integration with SNS and Slack so I am able to see all alarms in Slack. How it works now, it's a bit of a hassle to quickly find the cause of an cloudwatch alarm. Would be cool if the cloudtrail info is already included in the Slack message. Any thoughts on that?

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@JoostSaanen
Ah, now I got your point! I agree it would be beneficial if we could include actual log records in alarm messages 👍

CloudWatch Alarms itself does not send such information when it publishes a message to the SNS topic, so we need some intermediate lambda function to collect log records before sending messages.
It seems that this repo is very much relevant to this idea.

It is possible to implement the above function in this module though, some people may not want to expose actual log contents in alarm messages.
Given that, I'm wondering if this could be provided as a separated terraform module... 🤔

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