Customizing AWS Automated Troubleshooting Actions

This section describes how to customize the automation actions embedded in the AWS Automated Troubleshooting PowerPack to create automation actions that meet your organization's specific requirements.

For more information about creating automation policies using custom action types, see Creating and Customizing Automation Policies.

Customizing Automation Actions

The AWS Automated Troubleshooting PowerPack includes four automation actions that use its associated action type to request diagnostic information or remediate an issue. You can specify the host and the options in a JSON structure that you enter in the Input Parameters field in the Action Policy Editor modal.

The following automation actions that use the following action types that are included in the AWS Automated Troubleshooting PowerPack.

Action Name	Description	Action Type
AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Format JSON as Simple HTML	Formats JSON output from AWS to HTML	AWS Automation Troubleshooting Format HTTP Action Output
AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Get Console Output	Collects EC2 console logs information	AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Get Console Output
AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Monitor or Unmonitor Instance	Automatically turns on or off detailed monitoring for an EC2 instance	AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Monitor or Unmonitor Instance
AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Instance Status or Recommendation	Collects recommendations for an EC2 instance	AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Instance Status or Recommendation

The "AWS Automated Troubleshooting: Get Console Output Automation" policy will not work for output with a string size greater than 65k.