# Configuring settings for interactive endpoints
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This section contains a series of topics that cover various configurations for interactive endpoints and pod settings. These give you the ability to monitor and troubleshoot failures, send log information to Amazon S3 or to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, or to create interactive endpoints where you specify custom pod templates. 

**Topics**
+ [Monitoring Spark jobs](monitoring-spark-jobs.md)
+ [Specifying custom pod templates with interactive endpoints](custom-pod-templates.md)
+ [Deploying a JEG pod to a node group](managed-endpoint-nodegroups-setup.md)
+ [Jupyter Enterprise Gateway (JEG) configuration options](jeg-config-options.md)
+ [Modifying PySpark session parameters](modify-pyspark-parameters.md)
+ [Custom kernel image with interactive endpoint](custom-kernel.md)