Setting up Canaries

Creating a canary which will ping an endpoint and check the response

• In the aws console go to, cloud watch then click on canaries.
• Click on "Create Canary", choose "Use a blueprint" and "Heartbeat monitoring".
• Give a name which makes it easily recognisable as whats it is (try and get the name of the API and the endpoint it's testing)

## Checking a 200 response

Altering the code to check a 404 is returned

For more information, check out the aws documentation.