Viewing Amazon ECS metrics - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Viewing Amazon ECS metrics

After you have resources running in your cluster, you can view the metrics on the Amazon ECS and CloudWatch consoles. The Amazon ECS console provides a 24-hour maximum, minimum, and average view of your cluster and service metrics. The CloudWatch console provides a fine-grained and customizable display of your resources, as well as the number of running tasks in a service.

Amazon ECS console

Amazon ECS service CPU and memory utilization metrics are available on the Amazon ECS console. The view provided for service metrics shows the average, minimum, and maximum values for the previous 24-hour period, with data points available in 5-minute intervals. For more information, see Amazon ECS service utilization metrics.

  1. Open the console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ecs/v2.

  2. Select the cluster that you want to view metrics for.

  3. Determine the metrics to view.

    Toview metrics from Steps

    Clusters

    On the cluster details page, choose the Metrics tab. There is also a link provided to the CloudWatch console to view your CloudWatch Container Insights metrics if you have those turned on.

    Services

    On the cluster details page, on the Services tab, select the service. The metrics are then available on the Health and metrics tab.

CloudWatch console

For the Fargate launch type, Amazon ECS service metrics can also be viewed on the CloudWatch console. The console provides the most detailed view of Amazon ECS metrics, and you can tailor the views to suit your needs. You can view the service utilization and service RUNNING task count.

For the EC2 launch type, Amazon ECS cluster and service metrics can also be viewed on the CloudWatch console. The console provides the most detailed view of Amazon ECS metrics, and you can tailor the views to suit your needs.

For information about how to view the metrics, see View available metrics the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.