AWS ECS Monitoring
Gain deep insights into the performance of AWS ECS clusters and deploy containers at scale.
ManageEngine Applications Manager's AWS ECS monitoring capabilities enables you to monitor applications on the container, EC2 and ECS levels, in addition to monitoring the host infrastructure. It enables you to run containerized applications on AWS with confidence.
With Applications Manager's ECS monitoring tool, you can:
Deep dive into the performance of ECS clusters.
Applications Manager is a comprehensive ECS monitoring tool that proactively monitors critical AWS ECS KPIs and helps you optimize ECS performance.
Get an overview of your ECS resources at a single glance.
With Applications Manager's ECS monitoring dashboard, get an overview of the number of active Services in your ECS environment. View the number of EC2 and Fargate services that are running and draining along withthe number of EC2 and Fargate Tasks that are active and pending all at a single glance.
Monitor cluster resource stats.
Keep an eye on the instances running on the ECS cluster. When it comes to ECS clusters, resource reservation and utilization are the most important parameters. Applications Manager's AWS ECS monitor provides extensive details on resource stats such as CPU and memory that is reserved and used, file system usage, network traffic rate, and more. Understanding memory utilization can prevent memory contentions and ensure optimum operformance of your deployments.
You can even track Disk I/O and Network I/O metrics to pinpoint misconfigurations and utilize storage efficiently.
Get insights about Tasks.
A task listens to instructions from ECS and executes them for launching, terminating, and configuring containers. Applications Manager's Amazon ECS monitoring tool allows you to monitor ECS performance metrics like Health Status, Last Status, Desired Status, connectivity details, resource details, and configuration information of the tasks. Isolate tasks that have stopped running and identify the root cause to resolve issues with ease.
Keep an eye on services.
- Understand how busy your ECS infrastructure is and the load that it is handling by tracking services along with the number of running/pending tasks under them.
- Set alerts on task count metrics to understand if the services reach their mazimum utilization capabilities.
- Get deeper insights into the operation of services and monitor their resource utilization.
- Applications Manager's AWS ECS monitoring also has a dashboard feature that displays service event details.
Track Container Instances.
- Get exclusive container instance details from a single pane of glass.
- Monitor memory, CPU utilization and ensure that the containers have enough resources to manage and execute the tasks
- You can also track container instance resource details such as available CPU, Memory and reserved port details.
Ensure ECS cluster health and availability with instant alerts.
- Leverage root cause analysis capabilities to identify and resolve issues faster and get notified instantly.
- Respond to critical alerts quickly by sending a text or an email to an administrator responsible for investigating an issue or initiating an automated process to rectify an error.
- Automate tasks using web hooks to start external actions or integrate with your ITSM tools such as ServiceNow.
- Prevent unnecessary oversight by configuring baselines for acceptable performance using our fault management system.
Get in-depth visibility with ECS monitoring dashboards
- Gather and visualize real-time data from ECS clusters in minutes.
- View and analyze aggregated metric data in hsitorical reports to understand performance trends.
- Employ machine learning techniques to forecast growth and usage of resources.
Go beyond native AWS ECS monitoring tools
Although AWS CloudWatch provides native monitoring capabilities, it can be hard to set up and can get expensive. Applications Manager's cloud monitoring tool is not only cost effective but is also easy to set up with the help of automated discovery. No need to deploy or maintain agents.
Applications Manager has the ability to track the performance of various AWS cloud services such as EC2, RDS, SQS, Lambda, and more. It can also monitor your multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure, application performance and end user experience from a single console. AWS Elastic Container Service monitoring is a part of Applications Manager's AWS monitoring solution.
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Common queries on AWS ECS Monitor:
What is AWS ECS?
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
Why is AWS ECS monitoring important?
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Both the infrastructure on which the ECS instances are deployed and the ECS deployments has to be monitored thoroughly in order to ensure the proper running and allocation of tasks and services. If they aren't monitored constantly, the risk of encountering insufficent resources and performance errors is high.
How can AWS ECS monitoring help?
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A single miscalculated configuration in your service or container definition can cause an application performance issue. With Applications Manager's AWS ECS monitoring, you can observe Amazon ECS metrics such as system utilization stats from clusters, container instances, services and other ECS components for both EC2 and Fargate launch type. Analyzing AWS ECS monitoring metrics allows you to run containerized applications on AWS at scale with confidence.
How does Applications Manager collect data from Amazon ECS? Does it require installing an agent/collector on the ECS host?
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Applications Manager uses ECS Service APIs and CloudWatch APIs to fetch ECS configuration and performance metrics. No, you don't need to install an agent or collector on your ECS host.
What are some use cases of AWS ECS monitoring?
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Here are some use cases that you can address with Applications Manager's ECS monitoring in place:
- Understand when customers are accessing your application and increase ECS container load during peak hours.
- Scale your environment in anticipation of a traffic spike.
- Auditing: Understand what happened months ago(forensics).
- Search use case: Run a query and find answers. For example, how can I find the memory utilization of my container instances?
- Understand what's going on in production right now - application performance monitoring and understanding how your systems are performing.
I already use CloudWatch for ECS monitoring. Do I need to use Applications Manager again?
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The insight offered by CloudWatch is basic and at the surface level. You will have difficulty correlating the metrics. As you can see above, Applications Manager can go several levels deeper and provide better correlation.
