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Monitoring application heartbeat using Synthetics canaries

Monitoring application heartbeat using Synthetics canaries - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Monitoring application heartbeat using Synthetics canaries

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- [Instructor] To navigate to synthetics Canaries while on the cloud watch homepage we can use a Canaries link on the left navigation sidebar. Let's start by creating a new Canary using a create Canary button. Here we have the option to use a blueprint with some predefined common usages, or use an inline editor where we can upload our script directly which is great if we have our own script that we want to run. Or optionally we can import the file from S3 storage. For this demo, we are going to use a blueprint option. At the time of recording we have four blueprints that we can use. First, we have heartbeat monitoring. This is used to test websites. We can provide our URL and it will load it and store the screenshot as well as log in details. The API Canary blueprint is used to test API's. We can make request or APIs then inspect the results and make sure the API is behaving as expected. Next, we have the Broken Link…

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