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Task 8 - Creating Route 53 Health Check - Welcome To STP Containers On AWS - Labs

The document describes configuring a Route 53 health check to monitor an EC2 instance. It instructs to create a health check named "wa-app-health" that checks the endpoint of an ELB by making HTTP requests to the index.php path every 10 seconds, considering the check failed if more than 1 request fails. It warns that the domain name should only include the ELB DNS name without "http://" and to view the health check status in the monitoring tab after a few minutes.

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Task 8 - Creating Route 53 Health Check - Welcome To STP Containers On AWS - Labs

The document describes configuring a Route 53 health check to monitor an EC2 instance. It instructs to create a health check named "wa-app-health" that checks the endpoint of an ELB by making HTTP requests to the index.php path every 10 seconds, considering the check failed if more than 1 request fails. It warns that the domain name should only include the ELB DNS name without "http://" and to view the health check status in the monitoring tab after a few minutes.

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TASK 8: CREATING ROUTE 53


HEALTH CHECK
Amazon Route 53 health checks monitor the health and performance of your web applications,
web servers, and other resources. Each health check that you create can monitor one of the
following:

The health of a specified resource, such as a web server


The status of other health checks
The status of an Amazon CloudWatch alarm

In this task you will configure a health check to monitor the EC2 failure injection that you will test
in the last activity of this Lab.

1. Go to Amazon Route 53 service.

 Info

At the top of the page you will see an error message “Route 53 couldn’t update the page”.
This is expected, you can safely continue with the following steps.

2. Click on Health checks and later on Create health check.


3. Use the information in tables below to configure the health check.

Configure health check

Key Value

Name wa-app-health

What to monitor Endpoint

Monitor an endpoint

Key Value

Specify endpoint by Domain name

Protocol HTTP

Domain name * ELB DNS name

Path index.php
Advanced configuration

Key Value

Request interval Fast (10 seconds)

Failure threshold * 1

4. Click on Next.

5. For Create alarm, select No. Click on Create health check.


 Warning

If you get this error message “Error creating health check. Invalid fully qualified domain name:
It may not contain reserved characters of RFC1738 “;/?:@=&”.” confirm the Domain name
does not include “http://”. The best option here is to copy the DNS name in the Load
Balancer information from the EC2 console.

6. To view the application health status select the health check you have just created, and in
the below panel click on the Monitoring tab, after a couple of minutes you will see the app
health check status. In the Health check status graph 1.0 will mean the application is UP
and 0.0 will mean the application is DOWN.
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