This test is part of the System Monitoring control (DCF-86) that ensures production systems and resources are monitored and automated alerts are sent out personnel based on pre-configured rules. Events are triaged to determine if they constitute an incident and escalated per policy if necessary.

If Drata finds that an error rate CloudWatch metric alarm with subscription to an SNS topic has not been configured for one or more AWS Lambda functions, the test will fail.

1. Sign into the AWS Management Console and navigate to CloudWatch.

2. Go to 'Alarms' from the CloudWatch console and click on 'Create alarm'.

3. Click on 'Select metric' and select 'Lambda' from the list of available namespaces.

4. Click on 'By Function Name' > select the function you want to create the alarm for > choose 'Errors' metric.

5. Specify metric conditions and configure action details. Make sure to select or create an SNS topic to send notifications to.

6. Give the alarm a name and description and create the alarm.

7. Repeat for each failing Lamba function.