Elastic Beanstalk environment monitoring

This chapter explains the extensive health monitoring functionality that Elastic Beanstalk offers. It walks you through using the Elastic Beanstalk console and the command line tools to view your environment's status and also provides instructions to create and manage various configurations.

When you are running a production website, it is important to know that your application is available and responding to requests. To assist with monitoring your application’s responsiveness, Elastic Beanstalk provides features that monitor statistics about your application and create alerts that trigger when thresholds are exceeded.

Topics

• Monitoring environment health in the AWS management console
• Basic health reporting
• Elastic Beanstalk enhanced health reporting and monitoring
• Manage alarms
• Viewing an Elastic Beanstalk environment's change history
• Viewing an Elastic Beanstalk environment's event stream
• Listing and connecting to server instances
• Viewing logs from Amazon EC2 instances in your Elastic Beanstalk environment