Amazon CloudWatch + Mailshake Integrations

But, to start with an introduction, I think that it is necessary to say that Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that monitors the state of the resources in your AWS account. It reports metrics for your AWS resources and automatically detects any changes in their usage. It provides you with the fplowing services:

– Logging of all the metrics, which are cplected by CloudWatch

– CloudWatch Events to record changes in CloudWatch metrics

– CloudWatch Alarms to trigger automatic actions in case of certain conditions being met

– CloudWatch Logs to store log files in S3

– CloudWatch Metrics to store metrics in S3

– CloudWatch Logs to store log files in S3

– AWS Service Health Dashboard, where you can view the status of different services in your AWS account.

And Mailshake is a web-based email marketing platform that helps you manage all your email marketing campaigns, from one place. Using Mailshake, you can create templates for newsletters, autoresponders, postcard campaigns, etc., import leads from your list, build an audience from your social media, create segments, etc. The good thing about Mailshake is that it integrates with 20+ channels, including Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Slack, WordPress, Infusionsoft, HubSpot, etc. It also supports integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk or other CRMs. Besides that, Mailshake offers the best possible email deliverability rate out there. It does everything to maintain its reputation of delivering 99.9% emails on time and without any errors or spam complaints. All the emails that Mailshake sends are 100% compliant with all the standards set by the major email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! and Outlook.com.

To explain how Amazon CloudWatch works together with Mailshake and how they can be integrated together so that you can benefit from this partnership we should begin with the fact that Amazon CloudWatch has two types of metrics. metric and counter. And Mailshake has four types of metrics. hit, click, bounce and unsubscribe. So, using these four metrics we will complete the integration. Let’s get down to business! To begin with we will integrate Mailshake with Amazon CloudWatch. You can do this by going to the Integration page and clicking on Get Started under the Amazon CloudWatch integration section. After you click on Get Started you will see a form like this:

There are two ways to connect your Mailshake account with Amazon CloudWatch. Manual and Automatic. In this tutorial we will choose Automatic option and we will go through it step by step:

After we have added all the data we need to save our integration settings by clicking on Save Changes at the bottom or top of the page. This way we have successfully created a connection between Amazon CloudWatch and Mailshake. Now you can start using this integration in managing your email marketing campaigns. Let’s continue with the explanation from here! The next thing we need to do is to create a tag from your Amazon CloudWatch account and then join that tag with our Mailshake tag that we created above. To do this, go to your Amazon CloudWatch account and click on the Create Metric Tag button:

After you click on Create Metric Tag you will see a form like this:

Now enter a Name for your new tag and a Description for it. Then click on Next Step. In the next form you will need to enter a Metric Name for your new tag like this:

Then click on Next Step again. And finally you will reach the last step where you should enter your tags (Mailshake tag. like this:

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