Control: 3.3 Create at least one notification topic and subscription to receive monitoring alerts

Description

Notifications provide a multi-channel messaging service that allow users and applications to be notified of events of interest occurring within OCI. Messages can be sent via eMail, HTTPs, PagerDuty, Slack or the OCI Function service. Some channels, such as eMail require confirmation of the subscription before it becomes active.

Remediation

From Console

1. Go to the Notifications Service page.
2. Select the Compartment that hosts the notifications.
3. Click Create Topic.
4. Set the name to something relevant.
5. Set the description to describe the purpose of the topic.
6. Click Create.
7. Click the newly created topic.
8. Click Create Subscription.
9. Choose the correct protocol.
10. Complete the correct parameter, for instance email address.
11. Click Create.

From Command Line

1. Create a topic in a compartment

oci ons topic create --name <topic name> --description <topic description> -- compartment-id <compartment OCID>

2. Note the OCID of the topic using the topic-id field of the returned JSON and use it to create new subscriptions

oci ons subscription create --compartment-id <compartment OCID> --topic-id <topic OCID> --protocol <protocol> --subscription-endpoint <subscription endpoint>

3. The returned JSON includes the id of the subscription.