Amazon SNS Notifications

Sysdig Monitor integrates easily with Amazon Web Service (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS).

AWS Configuration

To automatically push Sysdig Monitor alerts to the SNS topic of your choice:

  1. Sign into the Amazon SNS Console.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Topics.

  3. On the Topics page, choose Create topic if required. If the topic already exists, choose it from the dropdown list.

    The topic’s name, Amazon Resource Name (optional), display name, and the topic owner’s AWS account ID are displayed in the Details section.

  4. In the Details section, enter a name for the topic or select the topic from the list.

  5. Under Type, select Standard.

  6. Expand Access policy - optional, select Basic.

  7. Under Define who can publish messages to the topic, select Only the specified AWS accounts and enter your Sysdig Monitor account ID: 273107874544 (US-East Only).

    For account IDs corresponding to other regions, see SaaS Regions and IP Ranges.

    Note: Use 481025487701 as the AWS account ID in US West (GCP) regions for SNS notification to work as expected.

  1. Click Create topic.

  2. Ensure that you subscribe to the created topic.

    1. In the left navigation pane, choose Subscriptions.

    2. On the Create subscription page, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the topic you created earlier.

    3. Specify other details and click Create subscription.

For further information about AWS SNS, refer to the AWS documentation.

Sysdig Configuration

  1. Log in to Sysdig Monitor or Sysdig Secure as administrator and open the user menu panel by hovering over your name in the bottom left corner of the screen.

  2. Select Settings. It is found in the top right corner of the user menu panel.

  3. Select Notification Channels under Outbound Integrations.

  4. Click Add Notification Channel +, and select Amazon SNS Topic.

  5. Enter the Topic created on the AWS side, along with a Channel Name.

  6. Toggle the Enablement, and Notification sliders as appropriate.

  7. From Shared With, choose whether to apply this channel globally (all teams) or to a specific team from the drop-down.

  8. Click Save.