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cloudwatch alarm for Autoscaling


how to setup cloudwatch alarm for Autoscaling group when its scaling down Mincapacity Instances using cloudformation template.

I mean need alarm when all the Instances were "OutofService" basically this will happen when Instance failed ELB healthcheck.


Solution

  • Why don't you add an alarm based on the CloudTrail metric HealtlyHostCount? If you set a low threshold, you will get warned when there are no healthy instances. You can see the metrics documentation here