# 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.