# Timestream for InfluxDB State Changes Now Flow Straight to EventBridge!

Hey, it's Shiichan! Today's news should make life a bit easier for anyone running a time-series database.

## What was announced?

According to AWS's What's New, Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB can now publish database instance and cluster state-change events to **Amazon EventBridge**. Events cover lifecycle operations like creation, deletion, compute and storage scaling, parameter group updates, maintenance windows, and reboots, and both successes and failures are reported.

## The story so far

Before this, if you wanted to know about a state change, you had to poll the API yourself — building your own way to check whether a scaling operation had finished, or whether it had failed.

## What changes

Now that state changes are event-driven, you don't need to build a polling setup at all. DevOps teams can trigger automation workflows when scaling finishes, operations teams can route failure events straight to alerting, and compliance teams can archive events in Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 for an audit trail.

## Dive Deep

Events are published to your account's default EventBridge event bus, with the source `aws.timestream-influxdb`. EventBridge rules support content-based filtering and routing to any target — AWS Lambda functions, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS queues, Amazon SNS topics, or even cross-account event buses.

Standard Amazon EventBridge pricing applies, for rule evaluation and target delivery. It's available in every AWS Region where Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is offered. To get started, just create a rule in the EventBridge console with source `aws.timestream-influxdb`.

## Wrap-up

- Timestream for InfluxDB can now publish database state-change events to Amazon EventBridge
- Covers creation, deletion, scaling, parameter group updates, maintenance windows, and reboots, both success and failure
- Source is `aws.timestream-influxdb`, routable to Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, or cross-account buses
- Standard EventBridge pricing applies

If your team runs Timestream for InfluxDB and wants to ditch polling for real automation and alerting, this one's for you!