diff --git a/docs/severity.md b/docs/severity.md
index fbdfec111..780718ac9 100644
--- a/docs/severity.md
+++ b/docs/severity.md
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@
 |AWS ELB backend 4xx error rate|X|X|-|-|-|
 |AWS ELB backend 5xx error rate|X|X|-|-|-|
 |AWS ELB backend latency|X|X|-|-|-|
+|AWS ELB unhealthy instances|X|-|-|-|-|
 
 
 ## aws-kinesis-firehose
diff --git a/modules/integration_aws-elb/README.md b/modules/integration_aws-elb/README.md
index 615dff52b..84c5bd014 100644
--- a/modules/integration_aws-elb/README.md
+++ b/modules/integration_aws-elb/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Note the following parameters:
 
 These 3 parameters alongs with all variables defined in [common-variables.tf](common-variables.tf) are common to all 
 [modules](../) in this repository. Other variables, specific to this module, are available in 
-[variables.tf](variables.tf).
+[variables.tf](variables.tf) and [variables-gen.tf](variables-gen.tf).
 In general, the default configuration "works" but all of these Terraform 
 [variables](https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/variables.html) make it possible to 
 customize the detectors behavior to better fit your needs.
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ This module creates the following SignalFx detectors which could contain one or
 |AWS ELB backend 4xx error rate|X|X|-|-|-|
 |AWS ELB backend 5xx error rate|X|X|-|-|-|
 |AWS ELB backend latency|X|X|-|-|-|
+|AWS ELB unhealthy instances|X|-|-|-|-|
 
 ## How to collect required metrics?
 
diff --git a/modules/integration_aws-elb/conf/01-unhealthy-instances.yaml b/modules/integration_aws-elb/conf/01-unhealthy-instances.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d45058cd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/integration_aws-elb/conf/01-unhealthy-instances.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+module: "AWS ELB"
+name: "unhealthy instances"
+id: unhealthy_instances_absolute
+transformation: ".min(over='10m')"
+signals:
+  signal:
+    metric: UnHealthyHostCount
+    filter: "filter('namespace', 'AWS/ELB') and filter('stat', 'upper') and (not filter('AvailabilityZone', '*'))"
+rules:
+  critical:
+    threshold: 1
+    comparator: ">="
diff --git a/modules/integration_aws-elb/detectors-gen.tf b/modules/integration_aws-elb/detectors-gen.tf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9159c8959
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/integration_aws-elb/detectors-gen.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+resource "signalfx_detector" "unhealthy_instances_absolute" {
+  name = format("%s %s", local.detector_name_prefix, "AWS ELB unhealthy instances")
+
+  authorized_writer_teams = var.authorized_writer_teams
+  teams                   = try(coalescelist(var.teams, var.authorized_writer_teams), null)
+  tags                    = compact(concat(local.common_tags, local.tags, var.extra_tags))
+
+  program_text = <<-EOF
+    signal = data('UnHealthyHostCount', filter=filter('namespace', 'AWS/ELB') and filter('stat', 'upper') and (not filter('AvailabilityZone', '*')) and ${module.filtering.signalflow})${var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_aggregation_function}${var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_transformation_function}.publish('signal')
+    detect(when(signal >= ${var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_threshold_critical})).publish('CRIT')
+EOF
+
+  rule {
+    description           = "is too high >= ${var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_threshold_critical}"
+    severity              = "Critical"
+    detect_label          = "CRIT"
+    disabled              = coalesce(var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_disabled, var.detectors_disabled)
+    notifications         = coalescelist(lookup(var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_notifications, "critical", []), var.notifications.critical)
+    runbook_url           = try(coalesce(var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_runbook_url, var.runbook_url), "")
+    tip                   = var.unhealthy_instances_absolute_tip
+    parameterized_subject = var.message_subject == "" ? local.rule_subject : var.message_subject
+    parameterized_body    = var.message_body == "" ? local.rule_body : var.message_body
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/modules/integration_aws-elb/outputs.tf b/modules/integration_aws-elb/outputs.tf
index c6dcb8983..1d153d2e1 100644
--- a/modules/integration_aws-elb/outputs.tf
+++ b/modules/integration_aws-elb/outputs.tf
@@ -33,3 +33,8 @@ output "no_healthy_instances" {
   value       = signalfx_detector.no_healthy_instances
 }
 
+output "unhealthy_instances_absolute" {
+  description = "Detector resource for unhealthy_instances_absolute"
+  value       = signalfx_detector.unhealthy_instances_absolute
+}
+
diff --git a/modules/integration_aws-elb/variables-gen.tf b/modules/integration_aws-elb/variables-gen.tf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18dfad25b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/integration_aws-elb/variables-gen.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# unhealthy_instances_absolute detector
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_notifications" {
+  description = "Notification recipients list per severity overridden for unhealthy_instances_absolute detector"
+  type        = map(list(string))
+  default     = {}
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_aggregation_function" {
+  description = "Aggregation function and group by for unhealthy_instances_absolute detector (i.e. \".mean(by=['host'])\")"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ""
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_transformation_function" {
+  description = "Transformation function for unhealthy_instances_absolute detector (i.e. \".mean(over='5m')\")"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ".min(over='10m')"
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_tip" {
+  description = "Suggested first course of action or any note useful for incident handling"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ""
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_runbook_url" {
+  description = "URL like SignalFx dashboard or wiki page which can help to troubleshoot the incident cause"
+  type        = string
+  default     = ""
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_disabled" {
+  description = "Disable all alerting rules for unhealthy_instances_absolute detector"
+  type        = bool
+  default     = null
+}
+
+variable "unhealthy_instances_absolute_threshold_critical" {
+  description = "Critical threshold for unhealthy_instances_absolute detector"
+  type        = number
+  default     = 1
+}
+