AWS CloudWatch Container Insights

wikipedia:Container Insights (Jul 2019) is a service that collects data as performance log events using the embedded metric format.

For Amazon ECS, network metrics are available only for containers in bridge network mode. They are not available for containers in awsvpc network mode or host network mode.

Operations

To enable service to all new ECS clusters

• aws ecs put-account-setting --name "containerInsights" --value "enabled"
• Enable on specific cluster: aws ecs update-cluster-settings --cluster myCICluster --settings name=containerInsights,value=enabled

Set account-level permission to enable Container Insights for any new Amazon ECS clusters

• aws ecs put-account-setting --name "containerInsights" --value "enabled"

Enable Container Insights on an existing Amazon ECS cluster

• aws ecs update-cluster-settings --cluster myCICluster --settings name=containerInsights,value=enabled

Disable Container Insights on an existing Amazon ECS cluster

• aws ecs update-cluster-settings --cluster myCICluster --settings name=containerInsights,value=disabled

Related terms

• AWS ECS
• AKS: CMK
• aws_ecs_cluster, settings containerInsights
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
• MCycle: module.downstream-clusters-EKS.module.eks.output.cluster certificate authority data

News

• Amazon EKS v1.23 (Dec 2021) and later supported: Setting up Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
• Aug 2021 Prometheus support https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-cloudwatch-container-insights-prometheus-support-with-aws-distro-for-opentelemetry-on-amazon-ecs-and-amazon-eks/

See also

• AWS: Insights: RDS Performance Insights, Container Insights, Lambda Insights, Application Insights, CloudTrail Insights, Logs Insights

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/introducing-container-insights-for-ecs-and-aws-fargate-in-preview/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/deploy-container-insights-EKS.html