Amazon ECS now publishes container health status as a CloudWatch metric
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This article announces that Amazon ECS now publishes container health status as a CloudWatch metric, enabling enhanced observability and proactive monitoring of container health.
- New UnHealthyContainerHealthStatus metric published in CloudWatch Container Insights
- Metric reports 0 for HEALTHY and 1 for UNHEALTHY container states
- Health state information also available in embedded metric format (EMF) logs
- Monitoring available at cluster, service, task, and container-level dimensions
- Create CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications for unhealthy containers
- Enable Container Insights with enhanced observability and configure health checks
- Available in all AWS Regions supporting ECS Container Insights
In summary, Amazon ECS now provides container health status metrics in CloudWatch, allowing teams to monitor container health and respond quickly to issues.
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