Naming and tagging health checks
You can add tags to Amazon Route 53 health checks, which lets you give each health check a name that is more comprehensible than the health check ID. These are the same tags that Amazon Billing and Cost Management provides for organizing your Amazon bill. For more information about using tags for cost allocation, see Use cost allocation tags for custom billing reports in the Amazon Billing User Guide.
Each tag consists of a key (the name of the tag) and a value, both of which you define. When you add tags to a health check, we recommend that you add one tag that has the following values for the key and value:
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key – Name
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value – The name that you want to give to the health check
The value of the Name tag appears in the list of health checks on the Route 53 console, which lets you readily distinguish health checks from one another. To see other tags for a health check, you choose the health check and then choose the Tags tab.
For more information about tags, see the following topics:
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To add, edit, or delete the Name tag when you add or edit health checks in the Route 53 console, see Creating, updating, and deleting health checks.
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For an overview of tagging Route 53 resources, see Tagging Amazon Route 53 resources.
Tag restrictions
The following basic restrictions apply to tags:
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Maximum number of tags per resource – 50
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Maximum Key length – 128 Unicode characters
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Maximum Value length – 256 Unicode characters
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Valid values for Key and Value – uppercase and lowercase letters in the UTF-8 character set, numbers, space, and the following characters: _ . : / = + - and @
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Tag keys and values are case sensitive
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Don't use the
aws:prefix for either keys or values; it's reserved for Amazon use
Adding, editing, and deleting tags for health checks
The following procedures show you how to use tags for your health checks on the Route 53 console.
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To add tags to health checks (console)
Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53/
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In the navigation pane, choose Health Checks.
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Select a health check, or select multiple health checks if you want to add the same tag to more than one health check.
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In the bottom pane, choose the Tags tab, and then choose Add/Edit Tags.
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In the Add/Edit Tags dialog box, enter a name for the tag in the Key field, and enter a value in the Value field.
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Choose Apply changes.
To edit tags for health checks (console)
Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53/
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In the navigation pane, choose Health Checks.
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Select a health check.
If you select multiple health checks that share the same tag, you cannot edit the value for all the tags simultaneously. Note, however, that you can edit the value of a tag that appears in multiple health checks if you select health checks that have the tag and at least one than doesn't.
For example, suppose you select multiple health checks that have a Cost Center tag and one that doesn't. You choose the option to add a tag, and you specify Cost Center for the key and 777 for the value. For the selected health checks that already have a Cost Center tag, Route 53 changes the value to 777. For the one health check that doesn't have a Cost Center tag, Route 53 adds one and sets the value to 777.
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In the bottom pane, choose the Tags tab, and then choose Add/Edit Tags.
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In the Add/Edit Tags dialog box, edit the value.
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Choose Save.
To delete tags for health checks (console)
Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/route53/
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In the navigation pane, choose Health Checks.
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Select a health check, or select multiple health checks if you want to delete the same tag from more than one health check.
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In the bottom pane, choose the Tags tab, and then choose Add/Edit Tags.
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In the Add/Edit Tags dialog box, choose the
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Choose Save.