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So three different environments have had the ELB just release all of their clients and not come back onboard. Manual intervention was the only way.

Whats the recommended way to monitor if instances have become detached or non responsive? Want to immediately alert slack or send an email, etc.

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There are a lot of ways to integrate, but we use datadog and I generally find it excellent. Alerts to hipchat, pagerduty, etc, with AWS Cloudwatch integration. Of course, you have to assume the Cloudwatch API is working... :)

A vote for datadog here too. Just started using it - it's clear that someone there really loves data.

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