How to send alert for AWS EBS impaired volume?

Question

What is the best method to send an alert via SNS for an AWS EBS volume that has been marked as "impaired"?

Within Console > EC2, under Instances > Status Check tab, you can set a CloudWatch alert.

However, there is no ability under the Volume > Status Check tab.

I discovered under Health Events there's a couple but they're only for "volume lost" and "degraded performance". Not exactly for an impaired volume.

The volume doesn't receive a lot of activity so monitoring any performance metrics likely isn't a good solution.

Answer 1

According to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html#monitoring-volume-checks you can use CloudWatch Events to monitor EBS Volume status changes. You can then feed the Events into SNS topic of your choice or to a Lambda function or elsewhere to process the notification.

Answer 2

Per AWS:

Our engineers have stated that there is no volume metric in Amazon CloudWatch. They have stated that you can create custom scripts to describe the volume(s) every 5 minutes. You can then check the returned status to see if it's impaired and take action based on the result.

You may also find this following documentation useful:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html