Health Check Route 53

Troubleshoot a health check that monitors an endpoint.

Health check route 53. It doesn t perform the health check when it receives a dns query. There are three types of dns failover configurations. You can configure a health check that monitors an endpoint that you specify either by ip address or by domain name.

You can view the current and recent status of your health checks on the route 53 console. You can use route 53 to check the health of your resources and only return healthy resources in response to dns queries. At regular intervals that you specify route 53 submits automated requests over the internet to your application server or other resource to verify that it s reachable available and functional.

Site24x7 s integration with route53 health check leverages these health checking capabilities to ensure that all resources are fully functional. Earlier this year we introduced a new dns failover feature for amazon route 53 if you enable this feature and create one or more health checks route 53 will periodically run the checks and switch to a secondary address possibly a static website hosted on amazon s3 if several consecutive checks fail. Getting health check status and notifications.

This method is configured using a failover policy. Route 53 metrics for health checks use the aws route53 namespace and provide metrics for healthcheckid when retrieving metrics you must supply the healthcheckid dimension. If there s a failure route 53 returns the backup resource.

If the health check isn t available from your aws account block the ip address of the health check. Dimensions for route 53 health check metrics. In addition for connectiontime sslhandshaketime and timetofirstbyte you can optionally specify region.

To report suspected route 53 health check abuse see stop unwanted amazon route 53 health checks. Regardless of health check type be sure to check the status of the invert health check status option. Based on the responses route 53 decides whether the endpoints are healthy and uses that information to determine how to respond to queries.