see Build Guide
After synaps installation, you can run synaps as below.
$ sudo synaps-api-cloudwatch
After build synaps-storm topology(synaps-storm-yyyy.xx.xx.jar), you can run the topology on storm local mode as below. (When you don’t pass topology name, it will run on local mode)
$ sudo storm jar synaps-storm-yyyy.xx.xx.jar
Now you can run testcase to check your Synaps running OK
~/git/synaps/synaps-api/synaps/tests$ python test_cloudwatch.py