Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set Check
Record sets are created in a Hosted Zone to define how traffic is routed to your domain. Considering that a single Hosted Zone may contain multiple record sets, managing them could become tedious. Site24x7 gives you a simple way to keep an eye on your routing policy with the Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set monitor.
Note: One basic monitor will allow you to monitor a total of 10 record sets Note: A monitor for record sets will be added only if 'Query Logging' is enabled from the AWS console. Learn more.
Setup and configuration
- If you haven't done it already, enable access to your AWS resource by creating Site24x7 as an IAM user or by creating a cross-account IAM role between your account and Site24x7's AWS account. Learn more.
- Next, In the Integrate AWS Account page, please make sure the Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set checkbox is selected in the Services to be discovered field. Learn more.
Policies and permissions
Please make sure the following read level actions are present in the IAM policy assigned to Site24x7 entity. Learn more.
- "route53:ListTagsForResources",
- "route53:GetHealthCheckLastFailureReason",
- "route53:GetHealthCheckStatus",
- "route53:GetHostedZone",
- "route53:ListHostedZones",
- "route53:ListResourceRecordSets",
- "route53:ListGeoLocations",
- "route53:GetTrafficPolicyInstance",
- "route53:GetTrafficPolicy",
- "route53:ListTagsForResource",
- "route53:ListQueryLoggingConfigs",
- "route53domains:ListDomains",
- "route53domains:GetDomainDetail",
- "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
- "logs:GetLogEvents"
Polling frequency
Site24x7 queries the AWS service level APIs and CloudWatch APIs as per the poll frequency set (1 minute to a day), to collect performance metrics. Learn more.
Supported Metrics
| Attribute | Description | Data type | Statistic |
| Total Request Count | The total number of requests received by your domain. | Request | Sum |
| No.of NOERROR DNS Response | The number of DNS queries completed successfully. | Query | Sum |
| No.of FORMERR DNS Response | Number of DNS Query Format Error | Query | Sum |
| No.of SERVFAIL DNS Response | The number of times the server failed to complete the DNS request | Query | Sum |
| No.of NXDOMAIN DNS Response | The number of responses that return Domain name does not exist. | Query | Sum |
| No.of NOTIMP DNS Response | Count of the number of times DNS failed because the function was not implemented. | Query | Sum |
| No.of REFUSED DNS Response | Number of times the server refused to answer for the query. | Query | Sum |
| No.of YXDOMAIN DNS Response | The count of the number of times the response returned invalid domain | Query | Sum |
| No.of XRRSET DNS Response | Count of the number of times the response returned invalid RRset | Query | Sum |
| No.of NOTAUTH DNS Response | Number of times the Server was not authoritative for the zone. | Query | Sum |
| No.of NOTZONE DNS Response | Number of times the response returned Name not in zone. | Query | Sum |
Licensing
Ten Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set monitors will consume one basic monitor license.
Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set monitoring UI pages
Summary
An overview of the DNS queries and their response codes displayed as time series charts.
Configuration
Configuration details of the Public Hosted Zone including Zone ID, Record set and its type, Domain name, Query logging status and the traffic policy associated with the record set.
Traffic policy
A visual representation of the traffic policy configuration.
Add a threshold profile for your Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set monitor. Learn more.