How to Monitor AMI events using EventBridge
By: Date: 23/05/2022 Categories: AWS Tags:

You can use Amazon EventBridge to detect and react to these events. You do this by creating rules in EventBridge that trigger an action in response to an event. For example, you can create an EventBridge rule that detects when the AMI creation process has completed and then invokes an Amazon SNS topic to send an email notification to you.

Amazon EC2 generates an event when an AMI enters any of the following states:

  • available
  • failed
  • deregistered

An AMI can enter the available or failed state when one of the following AMI operations runs:

  • CreateImage
  • CopyImage
  • RegisterImage
  • CreateRestoreImageTask

An AMI can enter the deregistered state when the following AMI operation runs:

  • DeregisterImage

AMI events

There are three EC2 AMI State Change events:

The events are sent to the default EventBridge event bus in JSON format.

The following fields in the event can be used to create rules that trigger an action:"source": "aws.ec2“

Identifies that the event is from Amazon EC2."detail-type": "EC2 AMI State Change"

Identifies the event name."detail": { "ImageId": "ami-0123456789example", "State": "available", }

Provides the following information:

  • The AMI ID – If you want to track a specific AMI.
  • The state of the AMI (available, failed, or deregistered).

available

The following is an example of an event that Amazon EC2 generates when the AMI enters the available state following a successful CreateImage, CopyImage, RegisterImage, or CreateRestoreImageTask operation.

"State": "available" indicates that the operation was successful.

{
    "version": "0",
    "id": "example-9f07-51db-246b-d8b8441bcdf0",
    "detail-type": "EC2 AMI State Change",
    "source": "aws.ec2",
    "account": "012345678901",
    "time": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "resources": ["arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1::image/ami-0123456789example"],
    "detail": {
        "RequestId": "example-9dcc-40a6-aa77-7ce457d5442b",
        "ImageId": "ami-0123456789example",
        "State": "available",
        "ErrorMessage": ""
    }
}

failed

The following is an example of an event that Amazon EC2 generates when the AMI enters the failed state following a failed CreateImage, CopyImage, RegisterImage, or CreateRestoreImageTask operation.

The following fields provide pertinent information:

  • "State": "failed" – Indicates that the operation failed.
  • "ErrorMessage": "" – Provides the reason for the failed operation.
{
    "version": "0",
    "id": "example-9f07-51db-246b-d8b8441bcdf0",
    "detail-type": "EC2 AMI State Change",
    "source": "aws.ec2",
    "account": "012345678901",
    "time": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "resources": ["arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1::image/ami-0123456789example"],
    "detail": {
        "RequestId": "example-9dcc-40a6-aa77-7ce457d5442b",
        "ImageId": "ami-0123456789example",
        "State": "failed",
        "ErrorMessage": "Description of failure"
    }
}

deregistered

The following is an example of an event that Amazon EC2 generates when the AMI enters the deregistered state following a successful DeregisterImage operation. If the operation fails, no event is generated. Any failure is known immediately because DeregisterImage is a synchronous operation.

"State": "deregistered" indicates that the DeregisterImage operation was successful.

{
    "version": "0",
    "id": "example-9f07-51db-246b-d8b8441bcdf0",
    "detail-type": "EC2 AMI State Change",
    "source": "aws.ec2",
    "account": "012345678901",
    "time": "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "resources": ["arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1::image/ami-0123456789example"],
    "detail": {
        "RequestId": "example-9dcc-40a6-aa77-7ce457d5442b",
        "ImageId": "ami-0123456789example",
        "State": "deregistered",
        "ErrorMessage": ""
    }
}

Create Amazon EventBridge rules

You can create an Amazon EventBridge rule that specifies an action to take when EventBridge receives an event that matches the event pattern in the rule. When an event matches, EventBridge sends the event to the specified target and triggers the action defined in the rule.

Event patterns have the same structure as the events they match. An event pattern either matches an event or it doesn’t.

When creating a rule for an AMI state change event, you can include the following fields in the event pattern:"source": "aws.ec2“

Identifies that the event is from Amazon EC2."detail-type": "EC2 AMI State Change"

Identifies the event name."detail": { "ImageId": "ami-0123456789example", "State": "available", }

Provides the following information:

  • The AMI ID – If you want to track a specific AMI.
  • The state of the AMI (available, failed, or deregistered).

Example: Create an EventBridge rule to send a notification

The following example creates an EventBridge rule to send an email, text message, or mobile push notification when any AMI is in the available state after the CreateImage operation has completed successfully.

Before creating the EventBridge rule, you must create the Amazon SNS topic for the email, text message, or mobile push notification.

To create an EventBridge rule to send a notification when an AMI is created and in the available state

  1. Open the Amazon EventBridge console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/events/.
  2. Choose Create rule.
  3. For Define rule detail, do the following:
    • Enter a Name for the rule, and, optionally, a description.A rule can’t have the same name as another rule in the same Region and on the same event bus.
    • For Event bus, choose default. When an AWS service in your account generates an event, it always goes to your account’s default event bus.
    • For Rule type, choose Rule with an event pattern.
    • Choose Next.
  4. For Build event pattern, do the following:
    • For Event source, choose AWS events or EventBridge partner events.
    • For Event pattern, for this example you’ll specify the following event pattern to match any EC2 AMI State Change event that is generated when an AMI enters the available state:
{
 "source": ["aws.ec2"],
 "detail-type": ["EC2 AMI State Change"],
 "detail": {"State": ["available"]}
}
  • To add the event pattern, you can either use a template by choosing Event pattern form, or specify your own pattern by choosing Custom pattern (JSON editor), as follows:
    1. To use a template to create the event pattern, do the following:
      1. Choose Event pattern form.
      2. For Event source, choose AWS services.
      3. For AWS Service, choose EC2.
      4. For Event type, choose EC2 AMI State Change.
      5. To customize the template, choose Edit pattern and make your changes to match the example event pattern.
    2. To specify a custom event pattern, do the following:
      1. Choose Custom pattern (JSON editor).
      2. In the Event pattern box, add the event pattern for this example.
  • Choose Next.
  1. For Select target(s), do the following:
    • For Target types, choose AWS service.
    • For Select a target, choose SNS topic to send an email, text message, or mobile push notification when the event occurs.
    • For Topic, choose an existing topic. You first need to create an Amazon SNS topic using the Amazon SNS console. For more information, see Using Amazon SNS for application-to-person (A2P) messaging in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.
    • (Optional) Under Additional settings, you can optionally configure additional settings. For more information, see Creating Amazon EventBridge rules that react to events (step 16) in the Amazon EventBridge User Guide.
    • Choose Next.
  2. (Optional) For Tags, you can optionally assign one or more tags to your rule, and then choose Next.
  3. For Review and create, do the following:
    • Review the details of the rule and modify them as necessary.
    • Choose Create rule.
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