Start, Stop, and Reboot Lightsail Instance

Using Site24x7's IT automation framework, you can create an action profile to stop, start, and reboot your Lightsail Instance. Plus, you can configure the automation to be triggered when there is a change in the status of the monitor or individual attributes.

Required Permissions

Please make sure the IAM role assumed by Site24x7 or the IAM user created for Site24x7 has the following partial write actions in the attached policy document to perform the actions.

lightsail:StartInstance
lightsail:StopInstance
lightsail:RebootInstance

Create an action profile

Log in to the Site24x7 web console, select Admin > IT Automation Templates.
Click on the drop-down, and select the action to be performed: Start/Stop/Reboot Lightsail Instance.
Enter a display name.
The action (start, stop, or reboot) will be pre-populated in the field below.
Next, select the instances where the action has to be performed.
Max Allowed Action Execution Time: The maximum number of seconds Site24x7 has to wait before the request times out. The execution time is set at 15 seconds, by default. You can define an execution time between 1-90 seconds.
Send the Automation Result via Email: You can choose to receive an email regarding the automation result by toggling this setting to Yes. Share automation results via an email to your User Alert Group configured in the Notification Profile. This email will contain parameters including the automation name, type of automation, incident reason, destination hosts, and more.
Save the profile.

Simulate the Automation

Before mapping the action profile, you can test its functionality by invoking the operational task manually within the Site24x7 console or by using our REST APIs. This is done to check whether the appropriate write-level permissions required to execute the reboot action are in place. To test, navigate back to the IT Automation summary page (Admin > IT Automation), and click on the play icon to execute a dry run.

Map the Action Profile

To execute the automation, map the action profile to the desired alert event. You can either map the profile to a predefined monitor-level event type, or to a custom attribute-level event type.

Monitor-level mapping

Navigate to the Edit page of the monitored Lightsail Instance, and map the action profile with any of the following monitor status changes:

Execute on Down
Execute on Up
Execute on Trouble
Execute on Critical
Execute on any Status change

Attribute-level mapping

You can also associate the action profile to any monitored AWS resource or application-related metric data points like CPU Utilization, and Network In and Network Out.

Navigate to the Edit Threshold Profile page of the monitored AWS resource (go to the Edit page of the resource, and click on the Pencil icon beside the Threshold and Availability field). Map the profile to any desired attribute by clicking on Select Automation to Execute.