CloudWatch Metric Guide

namespace/AWS/ECS

Amazon ECS CloudWatch AlarmsThresholds, failures, and debugging guides

3 CloudWatch metrics covered for Amazon ECS. Each guide includes the recommended alarm threshold, common root causes, and how Nuberio automatically diagnoses it when it fires.

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Amazon ECS metrics

AWS/ECS

CPUUtilization

Percent

CPUUtilization for ECS measures the percentage of CPU units reserved by the tasks in a service that are in use, averaged across the tasks in the service.

Threshold

> 85% sustained for 3 minutes

AWS/ECS

MemoryUtilization

Percent

MemoryUtilization for ECS measures the percentage of memory reserved by the tasks in a service that is in use, averaged across the running tasks.

Threshold

> 85% averaged across the service

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RunningTaskCount

Count

RunningTaskCount reports the number of tasks in the RUNNING state for an ECS service. Tasks not in RUNNING are either pending, provisioning, deprovisioning, or stopped.

Threshold

< desired task count for the service

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