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SOA-C03 · Question #113

A company needs to monitor its website's availability to end users. The company needs a solution to provide an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if the website's uptime…

The correct answer is C. Create an Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics heartbeat monitoring canary. Associate the canary. CloudWatch Synthetics heartbeat canaries simulate real user traffic to continuously monitor website availability and performance from an end-user perspective. By setting a CloudWatch alarm on the SuccessPercent metric and configuring it to send SNS notifications when uptime…

Submitted by mateo_ar· Mar 5, 2026Monitoring, logging, and remediation

Question

A company needs to monitor its website's availability to end users. The company needs a solution to provide an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if the website's uptime decreases to less than 99%. The monitoring must provide an accurate view of the user experience on the website. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that is based on the website's logs that are published to a
  • BCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that is based on the website's published metrics in
  • CCreate an Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics heartbeat monitoring canary. Associate the canary
  • DCreate an Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics broken link checker monitoring canary. Associate the

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    14% (3)
  • C
    76% (16)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

CloudWatch Synthetics heartbeat canaries simulate real user traffic to continuously monitor website availability and performance from an end-user perspective. By setting a CloudWatch alarm on the SuccessPercent metric and configuring it to send SNS notifications when uptime falls below 99%, the company gains accurate, automated monitoring of actual user experience with minimal operational effort.

Topics

#CloudWatch Synthetics#heartbeat canary#availability monitoring#SNS

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