How do i schedule alarms in aws cloudwatch

Question

I have a few alarms set up with an evaluation period of 5 minutes.

The problem is that I get too many alerts throughout the day because of them getting triggered. Is there a way to schedule those alarms once a day or twice a day?

Answer 1

CloudWatch Alarms only trigger when the cross the threshold. They will not send another alarm until they return to the OK status and then cross into ALARM again.

So, if you are receiving multiple alarms, is because they are often going into, and out of, the ALARM state.

If this is too sensitive for your needs, increase the evaluation period or the number of number of datapoints required to trigger the alarm.