CloudWatch Synthetics Canary

Headless browser / API probe that runs on a schedule.

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Configuration

Setting	Type	Required	Default
Canary name	Text	Yes	—
Artifact S3 location	Text	Yes	—
Execution role ARN	Text	Yes	—
Handler	Text	Yes	index.handler
Runtime Options: Node.js Puppeteer 9, Python Selenium 3	Choice	—	syn-nodejs-puppeteer-9.0
Schedule expression	Text	—	rate(5 minutes)
Schedule duration (s)	Number	—	0
Run timeout (s)	Number	—	60
Run memory (MB)	Number	—	1000
Active tracing	Toggle	—	false
Success retention (days)	Number	—	31
Failure retention (days)	Number	—	31
Start canary on apply	Toggle	—	true
Delete underlying Lambda on destroy	Toggle	—	false
Tags	Key–value	—	—

Connections

Socket	Direction	Accepts	Terraform arg
Execution role	Input	aws.iam-role	execution_role_arn
Alarms	Output	aws.cloudwatch-alarm	—