[Infrastructure as Code (IaC)] Terraform Aliyun Monitor Examples about using Terraform Alibaba Cloud Provider to manage alarm rules and monitor sites

Posted on 2020-08-15 Edited on 2023-09-02 In Infrastructure as Code (IaC) , Terraform Views: Word count in article: 3.8k Reading time ≈ 3 mins.

Terraform Aliyun Monitor Examples

Examples about using Terraform Alibaba Cloud Provider to manage alarm rules and monitor sites.

Github: https://github.com/CloudoLife/terraform-aliyun-monitor-examples

Prerequsites

Your must have a Alibaba Cloud account with Access Key, and Terraform CLI have been installed.

Aliyun Account and Access Key

Alibaba Cloud Document Center: Find the Documentation for Your Needs - Alibaba Cloud

Before you purchase and use Alibaba Cloud products and services, you must have an Alibaba Cloud account. And then configure the account.
Create an AccessKey - General Reference| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

An AccessKey is equivalent to a logon password, but they are used in different scenarios. AccessKeys are used to directly call APIs, while logon passwords are used to log on to the console. You must create an AccessKey only if you must call APIs.

Terrraform and Terrafrom Aliyun Provider

Terraform by HashiCorp

Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service
Provider: alicloud - Terraform by HashiCorp

The Alibaba Cloud provider is used to interact with the many resources supported by Alibaba Cloud. The provider needs to be configured with the proper credentials before it can be used.

Configuration

Profile and Region

First, Specify your Aliyun(AliCloud - Alibaba Cloud) profile and region within terraform.tfvars.

# terraform.tfvars

profile = "default"

region = "cn-shanghai"

CMS Alarm Rules

See more within cms_alarm.tf.

# Alicloud: alicloud_cms_alarm - Terraform by HashiCorp
# https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/alicloud/r/cms_alarm.html
resource "alicloud_cms_alarm" "cpu_total" {
  name    = "cpu_total"
  project = "acs_ecs_dashboard"
  # Alibaba Cloud Document Center: Find the Documentation for Your Needs - Alibaba Cloud
  # https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/zh/doc-detail/28619.htm   
  metric  = "cpu_total"
  dimensions = {
    # Remember to replace <Your ECS instance id>".
    instanceId = "<Your ECS instance id>"
  }
  statistics      = "Maximum"
  period          = 60
  operator        = ">="
  threshold       = 70
  triggered_count = 1
  contact_groups  = ["contact_groups"]
#   effective_interval = "00:00-23:59"
#   notify_type     = 1
#   enabled = true
#   webhook         = "https://${data.alicloud_account.current.id}.eu-central-1.fc.aliyuncs.com/2016-08-15/proxy/Terraform/AlarmEndpointMock/"
}

CMS Site Monitor

See more within cms_site_monitor.tf.

# Alicloud: alicloud_cms_site_monitor - Terraform by HashiCorp
# https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/alicloud/r/cms_site_monitor.html
resource "alicloud_cms_site_monitor" "site" {
    address = "https://blog.cloudolife.com"
    task_name = "blog_cloudolife_com"
    task_type = "HTTP"
    interval = 1
}

Run

Terraform Init

1	$ terraform init

It will download the Terraform Alibaba Cloud Provider binary.

Terraform apply

1	$ terraform apply

It will dispaly the execute plan and wait for your make yes or no.

Known issues

alicloud_cms_alarm ‘notify_type’ has been removed from provider version 1.50.0.

Because currently Terraform Alibaba Cloud Provider only supports the setting of Critical rules, other levels are not yet supported.

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Error: "notify_type": [REMOVED] Field 'notify_type' has been removed from provider version 1.50.0.

on main.tf line 6, in resource "alicloud_cms_alarm" "basic":
6: resource "alicloud_cms_alarm" "basic" {

May auto create a new alarm rule while update the some alarm rules provided by Terrraform within AliCloud Web Console.
Config alarm rule within alicloud_cms_site_monitor is not supported.