Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon ECS

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights introduces enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon Fargate with out-of-the-box detailed metrics, from cluster level down to container level to deliver faster problem isolation and troubleshooting.

Enhanced observability enables customers to visually drill up and down across various container layers and directly spot issues like memory leaks in individual containers, reducing mean time to resolution. With enhanced observability customers can now view their clusters, services, tasks or containers sorted by resource consumption, quickly identify anomalies, and mitigate risks pro-actively before end user experience is impacted. Using Container Insights’ new landing page, customers can now easily understand overall health and performance of clusters across multiple accounts, identify the ones operating under high utilization and pinpoint the root cause by directly browsing to the related detailed dashboards view saving time and effort.

You can get started with enhanced observability at cluster level or account level by selecting “Enhanced” radio button on Amazon ECS console or through the AWS CLI, CloudFormation and CDK. You can also collect instance level metrics from EC2 by launching the CloudWatch agent as a daemon service on your Container Insights enabled clusters.

Container Insights is available in all public AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). Container Insights with enhanced observability for ECS comes with a flat metric pricing – see pricing page for details. For further information, visit the Container Insights documentation.