Adding Elastic Load Balancing Health Checks to an Auto Scaling Group
The default health checks for an Auto Scaling group are EC2 status checks only. If an instance fails these status checks, the Auto Scaling group considers the instance unhealthy and replaces it.
You can attach one or more target groups (Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers), one or more load balancers (Classic Load Balancers), or both to your Auto Scaling group. However, by default, the group does not consider an instance unhealthy and replace it if it fails the health checks provided by Elastic Load Balancing.
To ensure that the group can determine an instance's health based on additional
tests provided by the load balancer, you can configure the Auto Scaling group to use
Elastic Load Balancing
(ELB) health checks. The load balancer periodically sends pings,
attempts connections, or sends requests to test the EC2 instances. These tests are
called health checks.
If you configure the Auto Scaling group to use ELB health checks, it
considers the instance unhealthy if it fails either the EC2 status checks or the
ELB health checks. If you attach multiple load balancer target
groups or Classic Load Balancers to the group, all of them must report that the
instance is healthy in order for it to consider the instance healthy. If any one of
them reports an instance as unhealthy, the Auto Scaling group replaces the instance,
even if
other ones report it as healthy.
See the following topics:
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To configure health checks for your Application Load Balancer, see Health Checks for Your Target Groups in the User Guide for Application Load Balancers.
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To configure health checks for your Network Load Balancer, see Health Checks for Your Target Groups in the User Guide for Network Load Balancers.
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To configure health checks for your Classic Load Balancer, see Configure Health Checks for Your Classic Load Balancer in the User Guide for Classic Load Balancers.
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For more information about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling health checks, see Health Checks for Auto Scaling Instances.
The following procedures show how to add ELB health checks to your
Auto Scaling group.
Adding Health Checks (Console)
Use the following procedure to add an ELB health check with a
grace period of 300 seconds to an Auto Scaling group with an attached load
balancer.
To add health checks
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Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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On the navigation pane, under AUTO SCALING, choose Auto Scaling Groups.
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Select the check box next to an existing group.
A split pane opens up in the bottom part of the Auto Scaling groups page, showing information about the group that's selected.
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On the Details tab, choose Health checks, Edit. (Old console: On the Details tab, choose Edit.)
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For Health check type, select Enable ELB health checks. (Old console: Select ELB.)
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For Health check grace period, enter
300. -
Choose Update.
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On the Instance management tab, under Instances, you can view the health status of instances. (Old console: The Instances tab is where you can view the health status of instances.) The Health Status column displays the results of the newly added health checks.
Adding Health Checks (AWS CLI)
Use the following update-auto-scaling-group command to create a health check with a grace period of 300 seconds.
aws autoscaling update-auto-scaling-group --auto-scaling-group-namemy-lb-asg\ --health-check-type ELB --health-check-grace-period300
