There are no such tools till now to monitor whether your Docker container is running or not. Now, I had a Docker container running in production and I could not afford not knowing whenever it went down or rather stopped. So, I decided to do something about it. The blog is about the same.  What we will be doing is checking whether the required Docker container is up using a simple bash script. We will put this script in cron running at every minute. Every minute if the container is up, the count remains 1 for single container in my use-case and is pushed to AWS CloudWatch. In AWS CloudWatch we will put an alarm for count <1 and an SNS notification to follow. Prerequisites  AWS Linux server Docker service and a Docker container running on that server The server should have AWS CLI installed and have appropriate IAM keys or a role attached to it. The policy attached to the role should have CloudWatch access.  Steps 1. Understand the bash script You need a bash script which will check