Amazon Route 53

Least Privileged User

Navigate to the AWS console and create an IAM user with programmatic access. The user will need the following permissions. You can create a policy specifically for these permissions and apply the permissions to the user.

For more information, see: High Level AWS Source Configuration

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "route53:ListReusableDelegationSets",
        "route53:ListTrafficPolicyInstances",
        "route53:GetHealthCheckLastFailureReason",
        "route53:GetHealthCheckStatus",
        "route53:GetTrafficPolicyInstanceCount",
        "route53:ListTrafficPolicyVersions",
        "route53:GetHostedZone",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "route53:ListTrafficPolicyInstancesByHostedZone",
        "route53:GetHealthCheck",
        "route53:GetReusableDelegationSet",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "route53:ListHostedZonesByName",
        "route53:ListTrafficPolicyInstancesByPolicy",
        "route53:ListHealthChecks",
        "route53:ListTrafficPolicies",
        "route53:ListResourceRecordSets",
        "route53:GetGeoLocation",
        "route53:ListGeoLocations",
        "route53:GetTrafficPolicyInstance",
        "route53:GetHostedZoneCount",
        "route53:GetTrafficPolicy",
        "route53:GetHealthCheckCount"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Connection Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
Region
Access Key ID	Required
Secret Access Key	Required
Additional Threads		The number of additional threads allowed to be utilized during collection.
Request Timeout (seconds)		The number of seconds to allow for the API to return a response.
Collect CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Historic Mode		If enabled, retrieves a history of data points from CloudWatch. Otherwise, collects only the most recent data point for each metric.

Metrics

Health Check

Name	Description
Alarm Comparison Operator	For the metric that the CloudWatch alarm is associated with, the arithmetic operation that is used for the comparison.
Alarm Econst Valuation Periods	For the metric that the CloudWatch alarm is associated with, the number of periods that the metric is compared to the threshold.
Alarm Identifier	The name of the CloudWatch alarm that you want Amazon Route 53 health checkers to use to determine whether this health check is healthy.
Alarm Metric	The name of the CloudWatch metric that the alarm is associated with.
Alarm Namespace	The namespace of the metric that the alarm is associated with.
Alarm Period	For the metric that the CloudWatch alarm is associated with, the duration of one evaluation period.
Alarm Region	The region to which the CloudWatch alarm applies.
Alarm Statistic	For the metric that the CloudWatch alarm is associated with, the statistic that is applied to the metric.
Alarm Threshold	For the metric that the CloudWatch alarm is associated with, the value the metric is compared with.
Caller Reference	A unique string that was specified when the health check was created.
Child Health Checks	A list of Child Health Check resources that are associated with the CALCULATED health check.
Children Healthy	The number of health checks that are healthy among the health checks that Amazon Route 53 is monitoring.
Failure Threshold	The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.
Fully Qualified Domain Name	Amazon Route 53 behavior depends on whether there is a value specified for the IPAddress.
Health Threshold	The number of child health checks that are associated with a CALCULATED health that Amazon Route 53 must consider healthy for the CALCULATED health check to be considered healthy.
Healthy (%)	The percentage of Amazon Route 53 health checkers that consider the selected endpoint to be healthy.
ID	The internal ID assigned to the health check.
Insufficient Data Health Status	When CloudWatch has insufficient data about the metric to determine the alarm state, the status that Amazon Route 53 will assign to the health check.
Inverted	Whether Amazon Route 53 should invert the status of the health check. For example, a healthy check would be reported as unhealthy instead.
IP Address	The IPv4 or IPv6 IP address of the endpoint that you want Amazon Route 53 to perform health checks on.
Linked Service Description	If the health check was created by another service, an optional description that can be provided by the other service.
Linked Service Principal	If the health check was created by another service, the service that created the resource.
Measure Latency	Whether Amazon Route 53 will measure the latency between health checkers in multiple AWS regions and its target endpoint.
Port	The port on the endpoint on which Amazon Route 53 will perform health checks.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Regions	A list of Regions from which Amazon Route 53 health checkers will check the specified endpoint.
Request Interconst Value (Seconds)	The time between when Amazon Route 53 gets a response from the endpoint and the time that it sends the next health check request.
Resource Path	The path that Amazon Route 53 will request when performing health checks.
Search String	If the value of Type is HTTP_STR_MATCH or HTTP_STR_MATCH, this is the string that Amazon Route 53 will use to search for in the response body from the specified resource.
SNI Enabled	If enabled, allows Amazon Route 53 to send the value of FullyQualifiedDomainName to the endpoint in the client_hello message during TLS negotiation.
Status	The status of the health check endpoint that CloudWatch is checking. 1 indicates healthy, and 0 indicates unhealthy.
Type	The type of health check, which indicates how Amazon Route 53 determines whether an endpoint is healthy.
Version	The version of the health check.

Hosted Zone

Name	Description
Caller Reference	A unique string that was specified when the hosted zone was created.
Comment	User comments about the hosted zone.
ID	The ID that Amazon Route 53 assigned to the hosted zone.
Linked Service Description	If the hosted zone was created by another service, an optional description that can be provided by the other service.
Linked Service Principal	If the hosted zone was created by another service, the service that created the resource.
Name	The name of the domain.
Private	Indicates whether this is a private hosted zone.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Resource Record Set Count	The number of resource record sets in the hosted zone.

Regional Health Check

Name	Description
Child Healthy Health Checks	The number of health checks that are healthy among the health checks that Amazon Route 53 is monitoring.
Connection Time (Milliseconds)	The average time that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to establish a TCP connection with the endpoint.
ID	The internal ID assigned to the health check.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
SSL Handshake Time (Milliseconds)	The average time, that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to complete the SSL handshake.
Status	The status of the health check endpoint that CloudWatch is checking. 1 indicates healthy, and 0 indicates unhealthy.
Time To First Byte (Milliseconds)	The average time, that it took Amazon Route 53 health checkers to receive the first byte of the response to an HTTP or HTTPS request.

Traffic Policy

Name	Description
ID	The ID that Amazon Route 53 assigned to the traffic policy.
Name	The name that was specified for the traffic policy.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Type	The DNS type of the resource record sets that Amazon Route 53 creates when it uses a traffic policy to create a traffic policy instance.
Version	The version number of the latest version of the traffic policy.