# Workflow monitor groups and templates
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Before you can deploy workflow monitoring to a signal map, you must create the groups and templates for CloudWatch alarms and EventBridge notifications. The CloudWatch templates define what scenarios and thresholds will be used to trigger the alarms. The EventBridge templates will determine how these alarms are reported to you. 

If you only want mappings of your connected resources and do not want to use the monitoring template capabilities of workflow monitor, signal maps can be used without CloudWatch and EventBridge templates. For more information about using signal maps, see: [Signal maps ](monitor-with-workflow-monitor-configure-signal-maps.md)

**Topics**
+ [CloudWatch alarm groups and templates for monitoring your AWS media workflow](monitor-with-workflow-monitor-configure-alarms.md)
+ [EventBridge rule groups and templates for monitoring your AWS media workflow](monitor-with-workflow-monitor-configure-notifications.md)

# CloudWatch alarm groups and templates for monitoring your AWS media workflow
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Workflow monitor alarms allow you to use existing CloudWatch metrics as the foundation of alarms for your signal maps. You can create an alarm template group to sort and classify the types of alarming that is important to your workflow. Within each alarm template group, you create alarm templates with specific CloudWatch metrics and parameters that you want to monitor. You can create your own alarm templates or import recommended alarm templates created by AWS. After creating an alarm template group and alarm templates within that group, you can attach one or more of these alarm template groups to a signal map.

 You must create an alarm template group first. After you have created an alarm template group, you can create your own templates or use recommended templates created by AWS. If you want to create your own alarm templates, continue on this page. For more information about importing recommended templates, see: [Recommended templates](monitor-with-workflow-monitor-configure-alarms-recommended-templates.md) 

This section covers the creation of CloudWatch alarms using workflow monitor. For more information about how the CloudWatch service handles alarms and details of the alarm components, see: [Using CloudWatch alarms](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide* 

## Creating alarm template groups
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Alarm template groups allow you to sort and classify the types of alarms that are important to your workflow.

**To create an alarm template group**

1. From the workflow monitor console's navigation pane, select **CloudWatch alarm templates**.

1. Select **Create alarm template group**.

1. Give the alarm template group a unique **Group name** and optional **Description**.

1. Select **Create**, You will be taken to the newly created alarm template group's details page.

## Creating alarm templates
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You can create alarm templates with the CloudWatch metrics and parameters that you want to monitor.

**To create an alarm template**

1. From the alarm template group's details page, select **Create alarm template**.

1. Give the alarm template a unique **Template name** and optional **Description**.

1. In the **Choose metric** section:

   1. Select a **Target Resource Type**. The target resource type is a resource for the respective service, such as a channel for MediaLive and MediaPackage or a flow for MediaConnect.

   1. Select a **Metric Name**. This is the CloudWatch metric that acts as the foundation for the alarm. The list of metrics will change depending on the selected **Target Resource Type**.

1. In the **Alarm settings** section: 
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For more information about how the CloudWatch service handles alarms and details of the alarm components, see: [Using CloudWatch alarms](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*

   1. Select the **Statistic**. This is a value such as a **Sum** or an **Average** that will be used to monitor the metric.

   1. Select the **Comparison Operator**. This field references the **Threshold** that you set in the next step. 

   1. Set a **Threshold**. This is a numeric value that the **Comparison Operator** uses to determine greater than, less than, or equal to status.

   1. Set a **Period**. This is a time value, in seconds. The **Period** is the length of time that the **Statistic**, **Comparison Operator**, and **Threshold** interact to determine if the alarm gets triggered.

   1. Set the **Datapoints**. This value determines how many datapoints are needed to trigger the alarm.

   1. Select how to **Treat Missing Data**. This selection determines how this alarm reacts to missing data.

1. Select **Create** to complete the process. 

An example of a completed alarm template could have the following parameters: A MediaConnect flow **Target Resource Type** is monitored for the Disconnections **Metric Name**. The **Statistic** value is set to Sum with a **Comparison Operator** of "greater than or equal to" and a **Threshold** of 10. The **Period** is set to 60 seconds, and only requires 1 out of 1 **Datapoints**. **Treat Missing Data** is set to "ignore." 

The result of these settings is: workflow monitor will monitor for disconnections on the flow. If 10 or more disconnections occur within 60 seconds, the alarm will be triggered. 10 or more disconnections in 60 seconds only needs to happen one time for the alarm to be triggered. 

# Recommended alarm templates for monitoring your AWS media workflow
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Workflow monitor's recommended templates are a curated selection of AWS Elemental service metrics with predefined alarm settings appropriate for the metric. If you do not want to create customized alarm templates, recommended templates provide you with best-practice monitoring templates that are created by AWS.

Workflow monitor contains recommended template groups for each supported service. These groups are designed to apply best-practice monitoring to specific types of workflows. Each template group contains a curated selection of alarms configured from service-specific metrics. For example, a recommended template group for a MediaLive multiplex workflow will have a different set of preconfigured metrics than a MediaConnect CDI workflow.

**To use recommended alarm templates**

1. Follow the steps to [create an alarm template group](monitor-with-workflow-monitor-configure-alarms.md#monitor-with-workflow-monitor-alarms-groups-create), or select an existing one.

1. In the **Alarm templates** section, select **Import**. You will need to import the AWS recommended templates into your template group.

1. Use the **CloudWatch alarm template groups** dropdown to select an AWS recommended group. These groups contain curated alarms for specific services.

1. Select the templates to import using the check boxes. Each template will list its metrics, preconfigured monitoring values, and provide a description of the metric. When you are done selecting templates, select the **Add** button.

1. The selected templates will move to the **Alarm template(s) to import** section. Review your choices and select **Import**.

1. After the import is complete, the selected templates will be added to the template group. If you want to add more templates, repeat the import process.

1. Imported templates can be customized after import. Alarm settings can be modified to fit your alarming needs. 

    

# EventBridge rule groups and templates for monitoring your AWS media workflow
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CloudWatch uses Amazon EventBridge rules to send notifications. You begin by creating an event template group. In that event template group, you create event templates that determine what conditions create a notification and who is notified.

This section covers the creation of EventBridge rules using workflow monitor. For more information about how the EventBridge service uses rules, see: [EventBridge rules](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-rules.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*

## Creating event template groups
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Event template groups allow you to sort and classify events based on your use case.

**To create an event template group**

1. From the workflow monitor console's navigation pane, select **EventBridge rule templates**.

1. Select **Create event template group**.

1. Give the alarm template group a unique **Group name** and optional **Description**.

1. Select **Create**, You will be taken to the newly created alarm template group's details page.

## Creating event templates
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 You can send notifications based on event templates you create.

**To create an event template**

1. From the event template group's details page, select **Create event template**.

1. Give the event template a unique **Template name** and optional **Description**.

1. In the **Rule settings** section:

   1. Select an **Event type**. When selecting an event type, you can choose between several events created by AWS or select **Signal map active alarm** to use an alarm created by an alarm template.

   1. Select a **Target service**. This determines how you would like to be notified of this event. You can select Amazon Simple Notification Service or CloudWatch logs.

   1. After selecting a target service, select a **Target**. This will be a Amazon SNS topic or a CloudWatch log group, depending on your target service selection. 

1. Select **Create** to complete the process.