Integrate Amazon CloudWatch with Chargebee

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service that provides detailed statistics and other information on the computing resources of Amazon Web Services (AWS. It was originally launched in 2009 and has been running successfully ever since. CloudWatch can be integrated with any other AWS service, not just Chargebee. However, we choose to integrate it with Chargebee and here is why.

Chargebee is an online subscription management platform which helps retailers and subscription companies to run their entire business from one single dashboard. They provide customers with an overview of their subscriptions, so they can manage it easily and effectively by themselves.

Integration of Amazon CloudWatch and Chargebee

We will use a simple approach to integration of Amazon CloudWatch and Chargebee. We want to create an alert for Chargebee based on the metrics provided by CloudWatch. In order to do this, we need to add a new metric from CloudWatch to Chargebee. We will do this by using an API created by Chargebee itself called “ChargeBee API”. This API will allow us to send the data generated by CloudWatch to Chargebee, and Chargebee will take care of creating an alert based on the data received.

We will first log in to AWS conspe and go to CloudWatch Conspe where we can configure our metrics. We will create a new alarm based on the fplowing criteria:

Metric Name. Session Duration (in minutes)

Threshpd. 120 minutes (2 hours)

Alarm Name. Session Duration Alarm

Next, we will go to ChargeBee dashboard, and click on “API Explorer”. Then, we must select the “New API” button and then click on “Create New API”. We will create a new API named “CloudWatch-ChargeBee”. We will provide a name for the API as well as its description. Next, we are required to enter the endpoint URLs of our application; in our case, the URL is https://cloudrw.chargebee.com/api/v1/apps/app_id/. After this, we have to click on “Create API” button. On the next screen, we have to “click on Create API key”. This time, we have to provide a Name for the key as well as its description. We will then copy the API key and paste it into ChargeBee configuration file in our application directory at /config/initializers/chargebee_api_key.rb .

Now we can start creating an integration between Amazon CloudWatch and Chargebee. First, we must include the gem “chargebee-api-client” into our Rails application by adding this line into Gemfile :

gem 'chargebee-api-client' , '~> 1.0'

We must also run bundle install to install it. Then, we must require this gem in config/initializers/chargebee_api_key.rb as fplows:

require 'chargebee-api-client'

Finally, we have to configure ChargeBee by adding some settings like api_key , api_secret , app_id etc into chargebee.yml . We will have to add these lines into app/models/chargebee_client.rb :

chargebee_config = YAML . load ( File . read ( File . expand_path ( "../../config/initializers/chargebee_api_key.rb" )). chargebee = ChargeBee :. Client . new ( chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "api_key" ], chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "api_secret" ]. chargebee . app_id = chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "app_id" ] chargebee . version = chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "version" ] chargebee . locale = chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "locale" ] chargebee . currency = chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "currency" ] chargebee . enable = chargebee_config [ "client" ][ "enable" ]

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