Amazon CloudWatch to HipChat

Relay alerts from Amazon CloudWatch to a HipChat room

Setup

Requirements:

A Heroku account
A HipChat Account
A HipChat Notification Token
The HipChat Room ID where you want to send alerts
An Amazon AWS account with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS setup and enabled

Deploy your application to to Heroku:

cd /path/to/wherever
git clone https://github.com/blackline/amazon-cloudwatch-to-hipchat.git

cd amazon-cloudwatch-to-hipchat
heroku apps:create
heroku config:set HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN=secret \
                  HIPCHAT_ROOM_ID=12345 \
                  HIPCHAT_FROM_NAME="AWS CloudWatch"
# Note that your HIPCHAT_FROM_NAME must be no more than 15 characters long: https://www.hipchat.com/docs/api/method/rooms/message
git push heroku master

Setup Amazon SNS:

Create a new Topic, or select an existing Topic
Add a New Subscription to the topic
Select HTTPS, and paste in your HTTPS URL to your Heroku application

Setup Amazon CloudWatch:

Create or modify an alert
Select the "Send Notification" action
Select the SNS topic you created / updated in the previous step