Ensure CloudWatch Synthetics canaries monitor critical endpoints
CloudWatch Synthetics canaries should monitor critical application endpoints.
Security Impact
Without synthetic monitoring, availability issues may not be detected proactively.
How to Remediate
Create Synthetics canaries for critical application endpoints and APIs.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-cloudwatch-11
- Service
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Category
- Monitoring
- Severity
- LOW
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