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Full-Stack AWS Observability & Alerting

License: MIT AWS Security Maintained by Merkaba AI Risk

Centralized metrics, logs, and intelligent Slack alerting for secure AWS environments.


Overview

A comprehensive observability solution that centralizes metrics, logs, and traces into a single pane of glass, and routes intelligent, human-readable alerts to Slack. It eliminates alert fatigue by parsing raw AWS JSON alerts into actionable messages.

For security operations, this ensures that critical infrastructure alarms (like GuardDuty findings or WAF blocks) are immediately visible to the response team.


Architecture

CloudWatch Alarms / GuardDuty
    │
    ▼
Amazon SNS Topic
    │
    ▼
AWS Lambda (Alert Parser)
    │
    ├── Parse JSON payload
    ├── Determine severity
    └── Format Slack Block Kit
    │
    ▼
Slack Webhook (Security Channel)

Security Properties

Property Implementation
Secure Routing Webhook URLs are stored in AWS Secrets Manager
Alert Integrity SNS topic policies restrict who can publish alerts
Visibility Ensures security events are not lost in noisy logs

Case Study / Usage Notes

Deployment at Merkaba AI Risk Management:

Used to route alerts from aws-security-compliance-automation. When an S3 bucket is auto-remediated, this alerting pipeline formats the remediation event into a clear Slack message, tagging the on-call security engineer. This reduced MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) for infrastructure alerts from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes.


Integration with Merkaba Security Stack


License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.


Contact

Merkaba AI Risk Management security@merkabacreatives.org https://merkabacreatives.org/ai-risk

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CloudWatch Dashboard (Terraform) + SNS → Lambda that parses raw alarm JSON and posts formatted, actionable Slack alerts. Eliminates alert fatigue and dramatically reduces MTTR for on-call engineers

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