Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.1 and recommends that customers update Synthetics Canaries to the latest runtime version. This update includes security fixes, bug fixes, and UI Canaries stability improvements. To learn more, see release notes.

Synthetics Canary’s runtime version can be updated using the AWS Management Console for CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI or AWS SDK. To learn more, refer to the CloudWatch Synthetics runtime support policy.

To learn more about CloudWatch Synthetics, refer to the Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics User Guide. To see a full list of regions where CloudWatch Synthetics is available, see Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics endpoints and quotas.