Viewing Trusted Advisor checks for your workload - AWS Well-Architected Tool

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Viewing Trusted Advisor checks for your workload

If Trusted Advisor is activated for your workload, a Trusted Advisor checks tab is displayed next to Question. If there are any checks available for the best practice, a notification that there are Trusted Advisor checks available is displayed following the question selection. Selecting View checks takes you to the Trusted Advisor checks tab.

Screenshot of the Trusted Advisor checks available notification on the Question page.

On the Trusted Advisor checks tab, you can view more detailed information about the best practice checks from Trusted Advisor, view links to the Trusted Advisor documentation in the Help resources pane, or Download check details, which provides a report of the Trusted Advisor checks and statuses for each best practice in a CSV file.

Screenshot of the Trusted Advisor checks page.

The check categories from Trusted Advisor are displayed as colored icons, and the number next to each icon shows the number of accounts in that status.

  • Action recommended (red) – Trusted Advisor recommends an action for the check.

  • Investigation recommended (yellow) – Trusted Advisor detects a possible issue for the check.

  • No problems detected (green) – Trusted Advisor doesn't detect an issue for the check.

  • Excluded items (gray) – The number of checks that have excluded items, such as resources that you want a check to ignore.

For more information on the checks Trusted Advisor provides, see View check categories in the AWS Support User Guide.

Selecting the Info link next to each Trusted Advisor check displays information about the check in the Help resources pane. For more information, see AWS Trusted Advisor check reference in the AWS Support User Guide.