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Christian
Christian

Reputation: 7852

How to test that AWS ELB sticky sessions work as intended?

I have a solution where an ELB is configured to use sticky sessions. How can I actually verify that requests for a client is actually routed to one and the same instance in the auto-scaling group behind the ELB?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1986

Answers (2)

gboda
gboda

Reputation: 1494

ELB access logs contain both the requesting client's and the backend instance's IP.

Upvotes: 2

mickzer
mickzer

Reputation: 6338

For web applications, in my dev/testing environments, I usually grab the instance-id using the EC2 meta data service and spit it out in the HTML. That way I can see what instance is serving my request.

Other than that, to my knowledge there is no way to verify sticky sessions are working unless you log session ids and all requests and check through all of your logs across each of the relevant instances.

Upvotes: 2

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