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Monitoring ELB latency

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Monitoring ELB latency

- [Instructor] When using elastic load balancers to serve your web traffic it is critical to monitor the health of your load balancers and the EC2 instances associated with it. Elastic load balancers can be monitored from the EC2 console and from CloudWatch. To monitor them from the EC2 console, click Load Balancers on the left navigation pane. Then select your load balancer and click on the Monitoring tab. Here you can see basic metrics, such as the count of Healthy and Unhealthy Hosts, Average Latency, the count of Requests, HTTP response code counts, and the count of New and Active Connections. Use the drop-down on the top right to change the time range. It is also possible to create an alarm from within the EC2 console. When monitoring your application load balancers it is also important to monitor the target groups associated with it. This can be done by clicking on Target Groups on the left, select your Target…

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