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

EcsEnhancedMonitoring toggle in the AWS Metrics from CloudWatch integration 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

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