Friday, 12 April 2019

How to capture a Screenshot of an Unreachable Instance without logging into it by Raj Gupta

If we are unable to logging into our instance via SSH or RDP, we can capture a screenshot of our instance and view it as an image(JPG format). This provides visibility as to the status of the instance, and allows for quicker troubleshooting.



By using AWS EC2 console

Open EC2 console --> Select the instance --> Actions --> Instance Settings -->  Then click on Get Instance Screenshot.


After clicking on Get Instance Screenshot , we will get Screenshot of our EC2 console without logging into it like below:-


Because in my server no error that why it will showing nothing, If you have issue with your server then you will get the same here.

Now right-click on the image to download and save it. You will get output like below it will help us in troubleshooting of EC2 server issue without logging into it.


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