Configure health checks

Background information

You can configure health checks by using the ELB console or API operations. For more information, see Health check overview.

Procedure

1. Log on to the Elastic Load Balancer console.
2. Select a region.
3. Find an ELB instance and click the instance ID.
4. On the page that appears, click the Listener tab.
5. Click Add Listener, or find an existing listener and click Modify Listener in the Actions column.
6. Click Next to go to the Health Check step and configure the health check.

We recommend that you use the default settings when you configure health checks.