AWS PagerDuty Workshop > CloudWatch Integration > Trigger an Incident
Trigger an Incident
Navigate to the URL in the Sample Application CloudFormation output and verify it is running.
Stop the EC2 instance.
- Enter the phrase “
the bird” into the box under “Enter The Word” and click Submit
- Enter the phrase “
Navigate to the URL in the Cloudformation output and verify it is NOT running.
A PagerDuty Incident should be created in about 2 minutes.
Restart the EC2 instance in the EC2 Console.
The incident should AUTOMATICALLY be resolved in about 2 1⁄2 minutes.