AWS Cloudwatch Alerts send to more than one team

Andres Felipe Ruge Quintero

Hello, 

I configure an SNS Topic with 3 differents subscriptions, for three different teams in Opsgenie. The Alert is sent 3 times but Opsgenie groups the three alerts in one and only assign the alert to one Responder. It doesn´t alert the members of the others two teams.

 

 

Thanks for your help!

Nick Haller

Hi @Andres Felipe Ruge Quintero ,

It sounds like your SNS Topic is triggering three different integrations, and the idea is to have all three integrations create an alert per team.

What appears to be happening is the alerts are deduplicating under one alert. Deduplication occurs when the alias of an alert matches the alias of an open Opsgenie alert: https://support.atlassian.com/opsgenie/docs/what-is-alert-de-duplication/

With this example, it's happening immediately at creation. Also important to note that deduplication can occur across multiple integrations. Only the alias needs to match.

To avoid deduplication, you can edit what parses in the alias field under the integration's Advanced tag:

 

NOTE - the Advanced tab of an integration is only available on the Opsgenie standalone Standard and Enterprise plans, or the JSM Premium and Enterprise plans.

 

For this use case, you can add a piece of hardcoded data into the alias field of each integration - such as the integration name along with what's already being parsed:

 

Another thing to be aware of is the integration uses the alias to close alerts, acknowledge alerts, etc. - so whatever is being using the create alert action's alias should be consistent throughout all of the other integration's actions' alias:

 

Once these changes are made, this should avoid deduplication moving forward.