The Terraform documentation covers cloudwatch alarms in the context of autoscaling groups, but not individual instances.
resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "foobar" {
alarm_name = "terraform-test-foobar5"
comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
evaluation_periods = "2"
metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
...
dimensions {
InstanceId = "${aws_instance.myOrg-myHost.id}"
}
alarm_description = "This metric monitors ec2 cpu utilization"
#This would be for autoscaling
#alarm_actions = ["${aws_autoscaling_policy.bat.arn}"]
}
I'm guessing it will be something like:
alarm_actions = ["arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:MyTopic"]