How to resolve Sprinto check for monitoring AWS Load Balancer healthy host count
About
Sprinto Check: AWS load balancer healthy host count should be monitored
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Load Balancers are crucial in distributing incoming application traffic across multiple targets to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. Monitoring the healthy host count of your AWS Load Balancer is essential for optimizing performance and maintaining a reliable application environment. Sprinto offers a streamlined process to set up an alert for actively monitoring the Healthy Host Count metric.
Purpose
The purpose of the Sprinto check for AWS Load Balancer Healthy Host Count is to actively monitor and alert the number of healthy hosts connected to your load balancer. This monitoring helps you:
Application Availability: Ensure the load balancer distributes traffic only to healthy backend resources.
Proactive Issue Detection: Receive alerts if the Healthy Host Count indicates potential issues with backend resources, allowing you to address them proactively.
Performance Optimization: Optimize overall performance by maintaining the health and availability of backend resources.
How to Configure
To set up an alert for monitoring AWS Load Balancer Healthy Host Count, follow these steps within the AWS Management Console:
Before you Begin
Ensure that you have the necessary permissions to create CloudWatch Alarms in AWS.
Log in to Sprinto as an administrator.
Configuring Alert
Log in to your AWS console using your credentials.
Navigate to the CloudWatch web service.
Go to Alarms > In Alarm, and click Create Alarm.
Click Select Metric.
On the Select Metric page, choose the AWS/ApplicationELB namespace and select the metric HealthyHostCount.
Specify the metric and conditions to define the alert trigger point, then click Next.
On the Configure Action page:
Create New Topic: Enter the topic name and email address for alert notifications.
Add Notification: Select the created SNS topic and click Add Notification.
Enter a name and description for the created alert, then click Next.
Preview your created alarm, and if necessary, edit any parameters before clicking Create Alarm.
Once the alert is created, Sprinto retrieves the changes and sets the AWS Load Balancer Healthy Host Count check status to "Passing."
For additional assistance with the Sprinto check, please get in touch with Sprinto Support.