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Amazon RDS + Alert24

Stream events from Amazon RDS into Alert24 to correlate changes with incidents and shorten time to resolution.

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Receive Amazon RDS database event notifications for failovers, failures, and maintenance.

Auto-detected payloads

Alert24 recognizes Amazon RDS webhooks out of the box and maps fields to incidents automatically.

On-call routing & escalations

Page the right engineer over SMS, voice, push, email, or chat with policy-driven escalations.

Auto-updating status pages

Promote incidents to a public or private status page with one click and keep customers informed.

Change correlation & AI RCA

Recent deploys, infra updates, and feature flag flips surface alongside the incident for faster root cause.

Quick Setup

Copy Webhook URL

Go to your Alert24 dashboard and copy the webhook URL for Amazon RDS.

Configure Amazon RDS

Add the webhook URL in your Amazon RDS settings.

Auto-Detected

Alert24 auto-detects Amazon RDS payloads and maps them to incidents.

Step-by-Step Setup Instructions

Amazon RDS Webhook Setup

1.In EventBridge, create a rule with source aws.rds and detail-type RDS DB Instance Event

2.Set the target to an SNS topic

3.Add an HTTPS subscription to the SNS topic using the webhook URL above

4.Confirm the subscription when you receive the confirmation request

5.Alternatively, configure RDS event subscriptions directly in the RDS console under Event subscriptions

Example Webhook Payload

This is a sample payload that Amazon RDS sends to Alert24 when an alert fires.

{
  "version": "0",
  "source": "aws.rds",
  "detail-type": "RDS DB Instance Event",
  "detail": {
    "EventCategories": [
      "failover"
    ],
    "SourceType": "DB_INSTANCE",
    "SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:production-db",
    "SourceIdentifier": "production-db",
    "Message": "Multi-AZ instance failover started for DB instance production-db.",
    "Date": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "Tags": []
  }
}