# Monitoring health check status and getting notifications
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You monitor the status of your health checks on the Amazon Route 53 console. You can also set CloudWatch alarms and get automated notifications when the status of your health check status changes. 

**Topics**
+ [Viewing health check status and the reason for health check failures](health-checks-view-status.md)
+ [Monitoring the latency between health checkers and your endpoint](monitoring-health-check-latency.md)
+ [Monitoring health checks using CloudWatch](monitoring-health-checks.md)