# Cloudwatch Schedule Event Not Created

**URL:** https://forum.serverless.com/t/cloudwatch-schedule-event-not-created/3935
**Category:** Serverless Framework
**Tags:** lambda
**Created:** [March 5, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/cloudwatch-schedule-event-not-created/3935 "2018-03-05T18:39:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![jjkirby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/jjkirby/32/1331_2.png) [@jjkirby](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jjkirby)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/cloudwatch-schedule-event-not-created/3935/1 "2018-03-05T18:39:26Z")

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I am trying to create a cloudwatch event scheduler to ping my lambda functions every 5 minutes to keep them warm. I can create a rule from the aws console. I am running version 1.26.1 and deploying a Java based lambda which is NAT’d. I followed the docs example but nothing gets created

Code Snippet:

```
functions:
      alerts:
            handler: com.mycompany.lambda.AlertSMSHandler
            description: Processes Notification alert POST and alerts query
            package:
              individually: true
              artifact: ./alerts/target/alerts-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
            role: xxxxxx
            vpc:
              securityGroupIds:
                 - xxxxxx
              subnetIds: 
                - xxxx
                - xxxx
            events:
              - schedule:
                  name: 'alertping'
                  enabled: true
                  description: 'Pings alert lambda every 5 minutes to keep it warm'
                  rate: rate(5 minutes)
                  input:
                    key1: 'ping'

```

Any suggestions please???

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### Author: ![jjkirby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/jjkirby/32/1331_2.png) [@jjkirby](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jjkirby)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/cloudwatch-schedule-event-not-created/3935/2 "2018-03-05T18:50:07Z")

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OK I solved it. When you do a serverless deploy --functions alerts it does nothing. When you run the full Monty of serverless -deploy it works cause it also uploads the Cloudformation template to s3. Why shouldn’t --function work?