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ECS Enhanced Monitoring for CloudWatch Metrics

Overview

Coralogix offers ECS enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS Metrics from CloudWatch using the Amazon ECS API to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to resroucegrouptagging API and adds all the new metrics that are specified in this document under Collected data.

Prerequisites

  • AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration
  • Policy permissions used for this integration:
  • ecs:DescribeContainerInstances
  • ecs:DescribeClusters
  • ecs:DescribeServices
  • ecs:ListContainerInstances
  • ecs:ListClusters
  • ecs:ListServices

Configuration

Collected data

Metrics

Metric Name Dimensions Description
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_Service_DesiredTask_count ClusterName, ServiceName
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_Service_RunningTask_count ClusterName, ServiceName
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_Service_PendingTask_count ClusterName, ServiceName
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_ContainerInstance_DesiredTask_count ClusterName, InstanceId container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_ContainerInstance_PendingTask_count ClusterName, InstanceId container instance metric
amazonaws_com_AWS_ECS_ContainerInstance_Status ClusterName, InstanceId container instance metric

Support

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