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Implementing DevOps on AWS
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Implementing DevOps on AWS

by Vaselin Kantsev
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
4h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enhancing your ELB health-checks

The stock ELB health checks allow you to check raw TCP responses or go higher in the stack and look for an HTTP/200 response.

Either is good. A basic check should get you started but as your application and its dependencies evolve, you might need to enrich your health checks too.

Let us suppose that you were serving a web application that relies on a cache and a database backend.

If the ELB was checking TCP:80 then as long as your HTTP daemon is running, it will receive an OK. If you were checking for an HTTP/200, instead that would verify access to the application's file(s) on disk but likely not much more.

Instead, you could benefit much more from pointing the ELB at a dedicated health check endpoint within your ...

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