Activate or deactivate a probe - Amazon CloudWatch
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Activate or deactivate a probe

You can activate or deactivate a probe in a monitor in Network Synthetic Monitor. You might want to deactivate a probe, for example, if you aren't currently using it but might want to use it again in the future. By deactivating a probe instead of deleting it, you won't need to spend time setting it up again. You are not billed for deactivated probes.

You can work with monitors and probes by using either the Amazon CloudWatch console or the Amazon Command Line Interface. To work with Network Synthetic Monitor programmatically, see the Network Synthetic Monitor API Reference and networkmonitor in the Amazon Command Line Interface Command Reference.

To set a probe to active or inactive by using the console

  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/, and then, under Network Monitoring, choose Synthetic monitors.

  2. Choose the Monitor details tab.

  3. In the Probes section, choose the probe that you want to activate or deactivate.

  4. Choose Actions, and then choose Activate or Deactivate.

    Note

    When you reactivate a probe, you begin incurring billing charges on the probe again.