Can AWS CloudWatch alarms be paused/disabled during specific hours?

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jmsb picture jmsb · Jul 14, 2014 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I want to automatically toggle alarms on/off during specific periods of time so that they do not fire during maintenance windows. I'm doubting that an easy or direct method exists since I could not find such a thing in the documentation. Does anyone know of a different approach to achieve this while still using CloudWatch alarms, or did I miss an obvious solution?

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Remigiusz picture Remigiusz · Apr 13, 2019

I got here while looking for something that would help me to disable alerts for my machine which is performing backups every Saturday between 11:00 and 11:30. The only solution I found is to create cronjob to disable/enable particular alert and run them on particular times:

59 10 * * 6 ec2-user aws cloudwatch disable-alarm-actions --alarm-names "Alarm-1" "Alarm-2"
31 11 * * 6 ec2-user aws cloudwatch disable-alarm-actions --alarm-names "Alarm-1" "Alarm-2"

Your node needs to have access to CloudWatch, obviously. I gave it CloudWatchFullAccess.

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