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Unfortunately, CloudWatch itself has nothing built in for EBS volume health.<br />
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An alternative solution would be to write something that periodically checks the API (using <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-volume-status.html" rel="ugc">describe-volume-status</a>), and trigger your script based off of that.<br />
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Another solution: If you are using an elastic load balancer, you can make the volume health part of the health check. &nbsp;If it fails, mark the instance as failed and use autoscaling rules to bring in a new one.
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Unfortunately, CloudWatch itself has nothing built in for EBS volume health.

An alternative solution would be to write something that periodically checks the API (using describe-volume-status [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-volume-status.html]), and trigger your script based off of that.

Another solution: If you are using an elastic load balancer, you can make the volume health part of the health check.  If it fails, mark the instance as failed and use autoscaling rules to bring in a new one.

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Hi,<br />
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I have written a script in bash to create a volume from a snapshot and attach to an instance. &nbsp;So Can I setup Cloudwatch monitoring that would trigger this script if the EBS volume is lost.
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Hi,

I have written a script in bash to create a volume from a snapshot and attach to an instance.  So Can I setup Cloudwatch monitoring that would trigger this script if the EBS volume is lost.

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