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Sending Events to Amazon CloudWatch Events
==========================================

.. meta::
   :description: Create rules and add targets to them, and send custom events to CloudWatch Events.
   :keywords: Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS SDK for PHP examples

CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to any of various targets. Using simple rules, you can match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams.

The examples below show how to:

* Create a rule using `PutRule <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/api-events-2015-10-07.html#putrule>`_.
* Add targets to a rule using `PutTargets <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/api-events-2015-10-07.html#puttargets>`_.
* Send custom events to CloudWatch Events using `PutEvents <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/api-events-2015-10-07.html#putevents>`_.

All the example code for the AWS SDK for PHP is available `here on GitHub <https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/master/php/example_code>`_.

Credentials
-----------

Before running the example code, configure your AWS credentials, as described in :doc:`/guide/credentials`.

Create a Rule
-------------

.. code-block:: php

    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    use Aws\CloudWatchEvents\CloudWatchEventsClient;
    use Aws\Exception\AwsException;

    $client = new CloudWatchEventsClient([
        'profile' => 'default',
        'region' => 'us-west-2',
        'version' => '2015-10-07'
    ]);
    try {
        $result = $client->putRule(array(
            'Name' => 'DEMO_EVENT', // REQUIRED
            'RoleArn' => 'IAM_ROLE_ARN',
            'ScheduleExpression' => 'rate(5 minutes)',
            'State' => 'ENABLED',
        ));
        var_dump($result);
    } catch (AwsException $e) {
        // output error message if fails
        error_log($e->getMessage());
    }

Add Targets to a Rule
---------------------

.. code-block:: php

    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    use Aws\CloudWatchEvents\CloudWatchEventsClient;
    use Aws\Exception\AwsException;

    $client = new CloudWatchEventsClient([
        'profile' => 'default',
        'region' => 'us-west-2',
        'version' => '2015-10-07'
    ]);
    try {
        $result = $client->putTargets([
            'Rule' => 'DEMO_EVENT', // REQUIRED
            'Targets' => [ // REQUIRED
                [
                    'Arn' => 'LAMBDA_FUNCTION_ARN', // REQUIRED
                    'Id' => 'myCloudWatchEventsTarget' // REQUIRED
                ],
            ],
        ]);
        var_dump($result);
    } catch (AwsException $e) {
        // output error message if fails
        error_log($e->getMessage());
    }

Send Custom Events
------------------

.. code-block:: php

    require 'vendor/autoload.php';
    use Aws\CloudWatchEvents\CloudWatchEventsClient;
    use Aws\Exception\AwsException;

    $client = new CloudWatchEventsClient([
        'profile' => 'default',
        'region' => 'us-west-2',
        'version' => '2015-10-07'
    ]);
    try {
        $result = $client->putEvents([
            'Entries' => [ // REQUIRED
                [
                    'Detail' => '<string>',
                    'DetailType' => '<string>',
                    'Resources' => ['<string>'],
                    'Source' => '<string>',
                    'Time' => time()
                ],
            ],
        ]);
        var_dump($result);
    } catch (AwsException $e) {
        // output error message if fails
        error_log($e->getMessage());
    }
