Effective use: Amazon ECS lifecycle events with Amazon CloudWatch logs insights

Introduction

We have observed a growing adoption of container services among both startups and established companies. This trend is driven by the ease of deploying applications and migrating from on-premises environments to the cloud. One platform of choice for many of our customers is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The powerful simplicity of Amazon ECS allows customers to scale from managing a single task to overseeing their entire enterprise application portfolio and to reach thousands of tasks. Amazon ECS eliminates the management overhead associated with running your own container orchestration service.

When working with customers, we have observed that there is a valuable opportunity to enhance the utilization of Amazon ECS events. Lifecycle events offer troubleshooting insights by linking service events with metrics and logs. Amazon ECS displays the latest 100 events, making it tricky to retrospectively review them. Using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights …