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Solving CloudWatch Metric Issues from Stack Overflow 💡 I came across an interesting question on Stack Overflow recently. Someone was trying to set up CloudWatch alarms for their ECS tasks, specifically to monitor DesiredTaskCount and RunningTaskCount. However, they kept running into “Insufficient Data” issues. Here’s the catch: the AWS/ECS namespace only provides two default metrics: • MemoryUtilization • CPUUtilization If you’re looking for task-level metrics like DesiredTaskCount, RunningTaskCount, or PendingTaskCount, these are actually found in the ECS/ContainerInsights namespace. This namespace is part of Container Insights, which gives much deeper insights into your ECS services. My Advice: Always manually check the CloudWatch console for the correct namespace and metric names before writing your code. It’s a simple step, but it can save you a lot of time and prevent these kinds of headaches. Have you encountered similar issues with CloudWatch metrics? Let’s discuss your experiences or tips in the comments! 👇 #AWS #CloudWatch #ECS #DevOps #CloudComputing #Monitoring #AWSCommunityBuilders #StackOverFlow
