Monitoring AWS FIS

You can use the following tools to monitor the progress and impact of your AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) experiments.

AWS FIS console and AWS CLI

Use the AWS FIS console or the AWS CLI to monitor the progress of a running experiment. You can view the status of each action in the experiment, and the results of each action. For more information, see View your experiments.

CloudWatch usage metrics and alarms

Use CloudWatch usage metrics to provide visibility into your account's usage of resources. AWS FIS usage metrics correspond to AWS service quotas. You can configure alarms that alert you when your usage approaches a service quota. For more information, see Monitor using CloudWatch.

You can also create stop conditions for your AWS FIS experiments by creating CloudWatch alarms that define when an experiment goes out of bounds. When the alarm is triggered, the experiment stops. For more information, see Stop conditions. For more information about creating CloudWatch alarms, see Create a CloudWatch Alarm Based on a Static Threshold and Creating a CloudWatch Alarm Based on Anomaly Detection in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

AWS FIS experiment logging

Enable experiment logging to capture detailed information about your experiment as it runs. For more information see Experiment logging.

Experiment state change events

Amazon EventBridge enables you to respond automatically to system events or resource changes. AWS FIS emits a notification when the state of an experiment changes. You can create rules for the events that you are interested in that specify the automated action to take when an event matches a rule. For example, sending a notification to an Amazon SNS topic or invoking a Lambda function. For more information, see Monitor using EventBridge.

CloudTrail logs

Use AWS CloudTrail to capture detailed information about the calls made to the AWS FIS API and store them as log files in Amazon S3. CloudTrail also logs calls made to service APIs for the resources on which you're running experiments. You can use these CloudTrail logs to determine which calls were made, the source IP address where the call came from, who made the call, when the call was made, and so on.

AWS Health Dashboard Notifications

AWS Health provides ongoing visibility into your resource performance and the availability of your AWS services and accounts. When you start an experiment, AWS FIS emits a notification to your AWS Health Dashboard. The notification is present for the duration of the experiment in each account that contains resources targeted in an experiment, including multi-account experiments. Multi-account experiments with only actions that do not include targets, such as aws:ssm:start-automation-execution and aws:fis:wait, will not emit a notification. Information about the role used to allow the experiment will be listed under Affected resources. To learn more about the AWS Health Dashboard, see AWS Health Dashboard in the AWS Health User Guide.

Note

AWS Health delivers events on a best effort basis.