Can I get email when instance reachability check failed

Question

My instance reachability check failed for 4 days. I did not get any notification about it. Today I found my website down and reboot the instance everything is fine. But due to the long down time, Google removed my website in search results. Can I get email notification when server down?

Answer

You need to wire this up yourself:  
Setup an Email-based subscription to an SNS topic.  
Setup a CloudWatch Alarm for the metric "StatusCheckFailed"  
If the value is 1, your system or instance has failed.  
Set the notification to go to that sns topic.  
  
There is a very small charge for the alarm..something like .10/month.  
  
Good luck.

Answer

Hello there  
  
You need to create cloduwatch alarm and set SNS topic as alarm action. Please follow below document for detailed step  
  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-system-instance-status-check.html#creating_status_check_alarms

Can I get email when instance reachability check failed

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