Troubleshooting containerized workloads with Amazon ECS Events in the AWS console

This article introduces Amazon ECS Event Capture, a new console feature that simplifies troubleshooting containerized workloads by automatically collecting and analyzing operational events.

• Enable event capture with one click in ECS console without manual EventBridge configuration
• Automatically collects task state changes, service actions, deployments, and container instance events
• Events stored in dedicated CloudWatch Logs group with configurable retention periods
• Built-in query interface with pre-configured templates for common troubleshooting scenarios
• Event History tab provides service-level and task lifecycle visualization with filtering capabilities
• Billed using standard EventBridge and CloudWatch Logs pricing models
• Includes hierarchical navigation from cluster to service to task level for rapid issue diagnosis

ECS Event Capture eliminates manual event routing setup and complex queries, enabling teams to quickly investigate task failures, track deployments, and analyze scaling patterns directly from the console.