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Monitoring APIs with synthetic canaries - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch
Monitoring APIs with synthetic canaries
- [Instructor] In this demo, we are going to look into creating a canary for monitoring our serverless API endpoints. We have this API request app that we use to test our API. If you navigate to Applications under Lambda, you'll find the application that we have created in here, and it has the following URL. Let's go ahead and copy it. And now using the canary, we are going to make requests to make sure it's running as expected. Let's navigate to our CloudWatch Management Console, and in here, we are going to create a new canary. This time in the blueprints, we are going to use API canary. Let's give it a name. Let's name it serverlessapi. And since we're using an API Gateway, we can import it directly. Make sure you click I'm using Amazon API Gateway. And now, we get to choose our API. In my case, the API name was cloudwatchapi. Next, scroll down and find the stage. For our demo, we are going to do Production. And the…
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