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AWS managedservices documentation change

Service: managedservices · 2025-08-10 · Documentation low

File: managedservices/latest/onboardingguide/monitoring-default-metrics.md

Summary

Added SecureChannelFailure monitoring for Windows EC2 instances and updated link formatting

Security assessment

Introduces documentation for monitoring secure channel failures (security-related metric) but doesn't address a specific vulnerability. Improves visibility into potential authentication issues.

Diff

diff --git a/managedservices/latest/onboardingguide/monitoring-default-metrics.md b/managedservices/latest/onboardingguide/monitoring-default-metrics.md
index c63153320..cc1e0268d 100644
--- a//managedservices/latest/onboardingguide/monitoring-default-metrics.md
+++ b//managedservices/latest/onboardingguide/monitoring-default-metrics.md
@@ -17,0 +18 @@ Application Load Balancer (ALB) target | No | TargetConnectionErrorCount sum > 0
+Amazon EC2 instance – Windows | No | SecureChannelFailure > 0.0 for 10 out of the last 15 data points. | CloudWatch alarm on Windows instances to alert when Secure a Channel connection has failed.  
@@ -27 +28 @@ Root Volume Usage >= 95% for 5 mins, 6 consecutive times.
-Non-root Volume Usage > 85% for 5 mins, 2 consecutive times. **Disabled by default; for details, see[ Additional Information](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/ctref/management-monitoring-cloudwatch-enable-non-root-volumes-monitoring.html#management-monitoring-cloudwatch-enable-non-root-volumes-monitoring-info)**.  
+Non-root Volume Usage > 85% for 5 mins, 2 consecutive times. **Disabled by default; for additional information, see<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/ctref/management-monitoring-cloudwatch-enable-non-root-volumes-monitoring.html#management-monitoring-cloudwatch-enable-non-root-volumes-monitoring-info>**.