diff --git a/cdk/lib/app-stack.ts b/cdk/lib/app-stack.ts
index 3fb73c70..1817c9d7 100644
--- a/cdk/lib/app-stack.ts
+++ b/cdk/lib/app-stack.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ import type { Construct } from "constructs";
 import * as ecs from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ecs";
 import * as ecsPatterns from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ecs-patterns";
 import * as ecrAssets from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ecr-assets";
+import * as cloudwatch from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-cloudwatch";
 import * as logs from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-logs";
 import * as ssm from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ssm";
+import * as sns from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-sns";
 import * as iam from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-iam";
+import * as snsSubscriptions from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-sns-subscriptions";
 
 interface Props extends cdk.StackProps {
   bucket: cdk.aws_s3.Bucket;
@@ -202,5 +205,29 @@ export class AppStack extends cdk.Stack {
     );
 
     this.loadbalancer = fargateService.loadBalancer;
+
+    // Cloudwatch notifications
+    const alarm = new cloudwatch.Alarm(this, "FargateServiceDownAlarm", {
+      alarmName: "FargateServiceDownAlarm",
+      alarmDescription: "Triggered when Fargate service is down",
+      metric: fargateService.service.metricCpuUtilization(),
+      threshold: 10,
+      evaluationPeriods: 1,
+      comparisonOperator: cloudwatch.ComparisonOperator.LESS_THAN_THRESHOLD,
+      treatMissingData: cloudwatch.TreatMissingData.NOT_BREACHING,
+    });
+
+    const snsTopic = new sns.Topic(this, "FargateServiceAlertTopic");
+    alarm.addAlarmAction(new cdk.aws_cloudwatch_actions.SnsAction(snsTopic));
+
+    snsTopic.addSubscription(
+      new snsSubscriptions.EmailSubscription(
+        ssm.StringParameter.fromStringParameterName(
+          this,
+          "alertEmail",
+          "/env/alertEmail",
+        ).toString(),
+      ),
+    );
   }
 }
diff --git a/cdk/test/cdk-pipeline-codu.test.ts b/cdk/test/cdk-pipeline-codu.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e74cdd0..00000000
--- a/cdk/test/cdk-pipeline-codu.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-// import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib';
-// import { Template } from 'aws-cdk-lib/assertions';
-// import * as CdkPipelineDocker from '../lib/cdk-pipeline-docker-stack';
-
-// example test. To run these tests, uncomment this file along with the
-// example resource in lib/cdk-pipeline-docker-stack.ts
-test("SQS Queue Created", () => {
-  //   const app = new cdk.App();
-  //     // WHEN
-  //   const stack = new CdkPipelineDocker.CdkPipelineDockerStack(app, 'MyTestStack');
-  //     // THEN
-  //   const template = Template.fromStack(stack);
-  //   template.hasResourceProperties('AWS::SQS::Queue', {
-  //     VisibilityTimeout: 300
-  //   });
-});