AWS Status parser for Diagnostics

aws-status.py

# Modified for Process Automation, Python 3.x , Justyn Roberts 2022
# Based on original code from  AppliedTrust / Ryan Hartkopf in 2014
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# Usage 
# python aws-status.py --service [aws service and region] eg 
# python aws-status.py --service ec2-us-east-1 
# to return status. This can then be used to write to incident notes

# Important. You WILL have to pip install feedparser before running. Tested Python 3.



import feedparser
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Check current status information from the AWS Service Health Dashboard (status.aws.amazon.com).')
parser.add_argument('--service')
args = parser.parse_args()
feed = args.service 

# Parse the feed and return value from the first entry. Return UNKNOWN to Nagios if error.
try:
  d = feedparser.parse('http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/'+feed+'.rss')
  if d.entries:
    title = d.entries[0]['title']
    pubdate = d.entries[0]['published']
    dsc = d.entries[0]['description']
  elif d['feed']['title']:
    print ('🟩  AWS OK: No events to display.')
    exit(0)
except KeyError:
  print ('🟧  AWS UNKNOWN: Feed http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/'+feed+'.rss could not be parsed. Check command options.')
  exit(3)

# Determine the state of the feed
if title.startswith("Service is operating normally"):
  status = 0
  msg = "🟩  AWS OK: "
elif (title.startswith("Informational message") or title.startswith("Performance issues") ):
  status = 1
  msg = "🟨   AWS WARNING: "
elif (title.startswith("Service disruption")):
  status = 2
  msg = "🟥  AWS CRITICAL: "
else:
  status = 3
  msg = "🟧  AWS UNKNOWN: "


msg += title
print (msg)
print (pubdate)
print (dsc)