Troubleshooting containerized workloads with Amazon ECS Events in the AWS console

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) generates detailed events, from task launches to service deployments, which are critical for maintaining reliable container operations and resolving issues efficiently.

Although Amazon ECS events are emitted to Amazon EventBridge, you need to manually configure EventBridge rules, set up Amazon CloudWatch log groups, and build custom queries to gain operational insights. In this post, we show how you can use the new event capture capability in the Amazon ECS console to automatically collect and analyze operational events. We demonstrate how to enable Amazon ECS event capture with a single click and use the integrated query interface to investigate operational scenarios such as task failures, deployment, and resource constraints issues.

This approach removes the need to manually set up event routing across multiple services or write complex CloudWatch Logs Insights queries. Whether you are investigating intermittent task failures, tracking …