Events in Amazon EventBridge

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  • Published Sep 25, 2025
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Amazon EventBridge (EB) is a centralized fully managed serverless event router.

It's common to use it as a destination bus, mainly in event-driven use-cases (infrastructure or application).

The cloud integration is designed to deploy (user opt-in) a Dynatrace API destination and attaching a rule to the built-in AWS EventBridge bus named default. Events published to this bus are then sent to the Dynatrace API destination, unlocking many use-cases, for example, automation (Workflows) based on event logic.

Once the events are successfully published to the Dynatrace API, they are transformed and enriched with common attributes. Once enriched, they are stored as Grail events.

Generic ingest events are not designed to be linked to their respective entities, unless explicitly supported by Dynatrace.

The Preview only supports the linking of events with AWS Health EC2 events as the source.

Onboard Amazon EventBridge events

Onboarding of the events signal is currently only supported after creating a successful AWS connection.

Once a connection has successfully been onboarded (healthy status)

  1. Head over to Clouds Clouds > Overview (Preview) tab.
  2. Go to the Amazon EventBridge events card.
  3. Select Configuring events to open a step-by-step onboarding instructions.

Limitations

For now, only EC2 Health events are considered "native events" and can be linked to EC2 entities.

Native event

An event for which Dynatrace SaaS is designed to link an event producer AWS resource to the proper Dynatrace service entity. When successful, the native event is enriched with common Dynatrace attributes. The result is the ability to use Clouds Clouds and observe the native event as part of the AWS resource (for example, an EC2 instance) in the unified analysis pane.

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