An example of a health check runbook

Example

An example of a health check runbook for checking the health of AWS EC2 instances is below.

• List all AWS EC2 Instances
• For each instance, run describe instance status
• If instance status is unhealthy, send notification via email / Slack
• If all instances are healthy do nothing.

Advantages

• Codifying the sequence of steps and its execution
• Ability to share and execute by team members.
• Ability to test these runbooks
• Ability to review the execution of Runbooks for its success and Failure
• Help with proactive activities like auditing an application environment
• Ensure appropriate monitoring, backup and security is in place