Health checks configuration in AWS - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to specify the protocol for the health check.

AWS

HealthCheckProtocol: "[1]"

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ASSH

BHTTP

CSMTP

DFTP

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Common Mistakes

Using unsupported protocols like FTP or SSH for health checks.

Leaving the protocol field empty.

The health check protocol must be set to HTTP to check web server health.

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medium

Complete the code to set the port number for the health check.

AWS

HealthCheckPort: "[1]"

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A80

B443

C22

D21

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Common Mistakes

Using port 21 which is for FTP.

Using port 22 which is for SSH.

The health check port should be 80 for HTTP services.

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hard

Fix the error in the health check path configuration.

AWS

HealthCheckPath: "[1]"

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A/status

Bstatus

Chttp://example.com/status

D/healthcheck

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Common Mistakes

Omitting the leading slash.

Using a full URL instead of a path.

The health check path must start with a slash / to be valid.

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hard

Fill both blanks to configure the health check interval and timeout.

AWS

HealthCheckIntervalSeconds: [1], HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds: [2]

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A30

B5

C10

D60

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Common Mistakes

Setting timeout longer than interval.

Using very short intervals causing unnecessary load.

The interval is usually set to 30 seconds and the timeout to 10 seconds for balanced health checks.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to configure healthy threshold, unhealthy threshold, and matcher status code.

AWS

HealthyThresholdCount: [1], UnhealthyThresholdCount: [2], Matcher: { HTTPCode: "[3]" }

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A3

B5

C200

D404

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Common Mistakes

Confusing healthy and unhealthy threshold values.

Using wrong HTTP status codes for matcher.

The unhealthy threshold is often set to 3, healthy threshold to 5, and the matcher expects HTTP status code 200 for success.