# Start an experiment
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You start an experiment from an experiment template. For more information, see [Start an experiment from a template](start-experiment-from-template.md).

You can schedule your experiments as a one-time task or recurring tasks using Amazon EventBridge. For more information, see [Tutorial: Schedule a recurring experiment](fis-tutorial-recurring-experiment.md).

You can monitor your experiment using any of the following features:
+ View your experiments in the AWS FIS console. For more information, see [View your experiments](view-experiment-progress.md).
+ View Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the target resources in your experiments or view AWS FIS usage metrics. For more information, see [Monitor using CloudWatch](monitoring-cloudwatch.md).
+ Enable experiment logging to capture detailed information about your experiment as it runs. For more information see [Experiment logging](monitoring-logging.md).