How-To Guides
This section of the documentation provides step-by-step instructions for performing various tasks within Resoto.
Alerting
Send Discord Notifications
Resoto constantly monitors your infrastructure, and can alert you to any detected issues.
Send Prometheus Alertmanager Alerts
Resoto constantly monitors your infrastructure, and can alert you to any detected issues. Prometheus Alertmanager is a tool to manage and escalate alerts. In this guide, we will configure Resoto to send alerts to Alertmanager with a custom command.
Cleanup
Clean Up Expired Resources
A resource can be tagged with an expiration tag that instructs Resoto to clean it up after it has reached a certain age. This can serve as a safety net for when a CI job fails or the IaC tool aborts halfway through its run, or even as the primary means of managing resource lifecycles.
Clean Up Untagged Resources
Resource tags are an essential tool in finding and tracking an organization's cloud resources, but tags are only useful if they are applied consistently.
Clean Up AWS CloudWatch Alarms
When deleting EC2 instances, CloudWatch alarms are sometimes left behind.
Clean Up AWS EBS Volumes
When EC2 instances are removed, their storage volumes are sometimes left behind. Resoto can find and delete these unused storage volumes.
Clean Up AWS IAM Access Keys
IAM access keys are long-term AWS credentials, and it is best practice to remove keys that are no longer in use. Removing unused keys enhances the security and reduces your exposure to risk.
Clean Up AWS Load Balancers
When compute instances are removed, their load balancers are sometimes left behind.
Clean Up AWS VPC Resources
When deleting AWS VPCs, dependent network resources are sometimes left behind.
Configuration
Roll Out Resoto AWS Permissions with CloudFormation
Each version of Resoto programmatically generates the specific IAM permissions it requires to collect (and optionally, manipulate) AWS resources. Manually maintaining these permissions is a tedious task, especially if you have multiple AWS accounts.
Data Export
Export Data to Google Sheets
This how-to guide creates a chart in Google Sheets depicting the distribution of storage across accounts:
Search
Find a Resource
Resoto builds a cloud asset inventory by collecting resource metadata and is equipped with a full-text search index that allows you to discover, monitor, and analyze resources.
Find Expired Resources
A resource can be tagged with an expiration tag that instructs Resoto to clean it up at a defined time. This can serve as a safety net for when a CI job fails or the IaC tool aborts halfway through its run, or even as the primary means of managing resource lifecycles.
Find Untagged Resources
A resource can be tagged with an expiration tag that instructs Resoto to clean it up at a defined time. This can serve as a safety net for when a CI job fails or the IaC tool aborts halfway through its run, or even as the primary means of managing resource lifecycles.
Visualize the Blast Radius of a Resource
Resoto builds a cloud asset inventory by collecting resource metadata and relationships.