CloudWatch Alarms based on file existence in Ec2

Question

I have a requirement to monitor for a specific file in the /mnt/file-i-need-to-monitor.txt path where I need to;

if [ ! -f /mnt/file-i-need-to-monitor.txt ]; then
    // create aws alarm and notify via an email
fi

How can I integrate this methodology?

I have looked into the aws log agent but it seems like it is for pushing any custom logs to a log group.

Can someone help me fix this?

user_1860511 · Answer

Hello Jananath Banuka,

For your case, you can use aws cli to push a custom metric, And you create an alert based on the console if this custom metric if you have > 1