Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks
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This article announces application status checks for Amazon EC2, a new feature that monitors application-level health on EC2 instances.
- Detects application issues like stopped web servers, failed Docker daemons, and networking problems
- Customers define checks by specifying protocol, port, path, and healthy response codes
- EC2 sends HTTP/HTTPS requests every 60 seconds to monitor application status
- Auto Scaling groups can replace unhealthy instances based on application status
- Available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US)
Application status checks eliminate the need for custom monitoring solutions by providing built-in application health monitoring alongside existing EC2 status checks.
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