Best practices for monitoring Amazon ECS - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Best practices for monitoring Amazon ECS

Use the following best practices for monitoring Amazon ECS.

  • Make monitoring a priority to head off small problems before they become big ones

  • Create a monitoring plan that includes answers to the following question

    • What are your monitoring goals?

    • What resources will you monitor?

    • How often will you monitor these resources?

    • What monitoring tools will you use?

    • Who will perform the monitoring tasks?

    • Who should be notified when something goes wrong?

  • Automate monitoring as much as possible.

  • Check the Amazon ECS log files. For more information, see Viewing Amazon ECS container agent logs.