Amazon ECS now supports one-click event capture and event history querying in the AWS Management Console

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS), a fully managed container orchestration service, now provides one-click event capture and event history querying directly in the AWS Management Console.

ECS lifecycle events, including service action events and task state changes, provide visibility into your ECS environment for monitoring and troubleshooting. The ECS console now enables you to set up event capture with a single click, and access an intuitive query interface without leaving the ECS console. The ECS console automatically creates and manages the underlying EventBridge rules and CloudWatch log groups, while providing pre-built query templates and filters for common troubleshooting scenarios. Event capture through the ECS console is a great way to retain data for stopped tasks and recent events beyond the default limits.

To enable event capture, on the ECS console, navigate to the Cluster details page, locate the Configuration tab, and click the “Turn on event capture” button. Once enabled, navigate to the Event history tab on your cluster or service details page to query and analyze historical events. The console provides commonly used query parameters such as time range, task ID, and deployment ID, along with filters for stop codes and container exit codes. You can view detailed task lifecycle events such as task state changes and service action events without needing to navigate to another console, or use query languages.

ECS console event capture is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit the ECS developer guide.