AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-cw-alarm.html

• AWS::CloudWatch::AnomalyDetector

Autoscaling

• https://www.agilepartner.net/en/aws-cloudformation-part-6/

 AppScaleUpPolicy:
    Type: AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy
    Properties:
      AdjustmentType: ChangeInCapacity
      AutoScalingGroupName: !Ref DeployAppASG
      Cooldown: '60'
      ScalingAdjustment: 1

AppScaleDownPolicy:
    Type: AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy
    Properties:
      AdjustmentType: ChangeInCapacity
      AutoScalingGroupName: !Ref DeployAppASG
      Cooldown: '300'
      ScalingAdjustment: -1

CPU alarm

CPUAlarmHigh:
    Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
    Properties:
      AlarmDescription: Scale-up if CPU > 80% for 5 minutes
      MetricName: CPUUtilization
      Namespace: AWS/EC2
      Statistic: Average
      Period: 300
      EvaluationPeriods: 2
      Threshold: 80
      AlarmActions: [!Ref AppScaleUpPolicy]
      Dimensions:
      - Name: AutoScalingGroupName
        Value: !Ref DeployAppASG
      ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanThreshold

 CPUAlarmLow:
    Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
    Properties:
      AlarmDescription: Scale-down if CPU < 60% for 5 minutes
      MetricName: CPUUtilization
      Namespace: AWS/EC2
      Statistic: Average
      Period: 300
      EvaluationPeriods: 2
      Threshold: 80
      AlarmActions: [!Ref AppScaleDownPolicy]
      Dimensions:
      - Name: AutoScalingGroupName
        Value: !Ref DeployAppASG
      ComparisonOperator: LessThanThreshold

SNS

"MySNSTopic" : {
    "Type" : "AWS::SNS::Topic",
    "Properties" : {
        "Subscription" : [ {
            "Endpoint" : "add valid email address",
            "Protocol" : "email"
        } ]
    }
}

See also

• AWS monitoring: AWS CloudWatch: Logs, Logs Insights, Events, Alarms, aws cloudwatch, aws logs, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, CloudWatch Dashboard, AWS CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards, Amazon RDS Performance Insights, Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, CloudwatchLogsGroup, Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, cloudwatch kms key id, CloudWatch agent, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, namespace, Synthetics, Synthetics Canaries, YACE, Prometheus cloudwatch exporter, Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Live Tail

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/quickref-sns.html