2 - 24/7 Service Guard for CloudWatch
Harness 24/7 Service Guard monitors your live applications, catching problems that surface minutes or hours following deployment. For more information, see 24/7 Service Guard Overview.
You can add your CloudWatch monitoring to Harness 24/7 Service Guard in your Harness Application Environment. For a setup overview, see 1 - CloudWatch Connection Setup.
To set up 24/7 Service Guard for CloudWatch, do the following:
- Ensure that you have added CloudWatch as a Harness Verification Provider, as described in Verification Provider Setup.
- In your Harness Application, ensure that you have added a Service, as described in Services. For 24/7 Service Guard, you do not need to add an Artifact Source to the Service, or configure its settings. You simply need to create a Service and name it. It will represent your application for 24/7 Service Guard.
- In your Harness Application, click Environments.
- In Environments, ensure that you have added an Environment for the Service you added. For steps on adding an Environment, see Environments.
- Click the Environment for your Service. Typically, the Environment Type is Production.
- In the Environment page, locate 24/7 Service Guard.
- In 24/7 Service Guard, click Add Service Verification, and then click CloudWatch. The CloudWatch dialog appears.

- Fill out the dialog. The dialog has the following fields.
Field | Description |
Display Name | The name that will identify this service on the Continuous Verification dashboard. Use a name that indicates the environment and monitoring tool, such as CloudWatch. |
Service | The Harness Service to monitor with 24/7 Service Guard. |
CloudWatch Server | Select the CloudWatch Verification Provider to use. |
Region | Select the AWS region where the ECS and/or ELB are located. |
ELB Metrics | Click Add for each load balancer you want to monitor. For more information, see Elastic Load Balancing Metrics and Dimensions from AWS. |
ECS Metrics | This Cluster drop-down menu contains the available ECS clusters. The Metrics drop-down contains the available metrics. Select the metrics to monitor. You can see the available metrics in CloudWatch. ![]() For more information, see Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics from AWS. |
Lambda | Select the Lambda function and metrics to monitor. The functions displayed are from the region you selected. Only functions that have been deployed are displayed. |
Algorithm Sensitivity | |
Enable 24/7 Service Guard | Enable this setting to turn on 24/7 Service Guard. If you simply want to set up 24/7 Service Guard, but not enable it, leave this setting disabled. |
When you are finished, the dialog will look something like this:

- Click TEST. Harness verifies the settings you entered.
- Click SUBMIT. The CloudWatch 24/7 Service Guard to configured.
To see the running 24/7 Service Guard analysis, click Continuous Verification.

The 24/7 Service Guard dashboard displays the production verification results.

For information on using the dashboard, see 24/7 Service Guard Overview.