Elastic Beanstalk environment monitoring

This chapter explains the extensive health monitoring functionality that Elastic Beanstalk offers. It walks you through using the Elastic Beanstalk console and the command line tools to view your environment's status and also provides instructions to create and manage various configurations.

When you are running a production website, it is important to know that your application is available and responding to requests. To assist with monitoring your application’s responsiveness, Elastic Beanstalk provides features that monitor statistics about your application and create alerts that trigger when thresholds are exceeded.