AWSOverview
Container Insights collects metrics at the cluster, task, and service levels. This control checks if ECS clusters use Container Insights. This control fails if Container Insights are not set up for a cluster. Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon ECS clusters. Use CloudWatch Container Insights to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices. CloudWatch automatically collects metrics for many resources, such as CPU, memory, disk, and network. Container Insights also provides diagnostic information, such as container restart failures, to help you isolate issues and resolve them quickly. You can also set CloudWatch alarms on metrics that Container Insights collects.
Remediation guidance
To use Container Insights, see Updating a service in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
To deploy the CloudWatch agent to collect instance-level metrics from Amazon ECS clusters that are hosted on EC2 instance, use a quick start setup with a default configuration, or install the agent manually to be able to customize it.
Service-wide remediation
Recommended when many resources are affected: fix the platform baseline first so new resources inherit the secure setting, then remediate the existing flagged resources in batches.
AWS
Use AWS Organizations guardrails, AWS Config rules or conformance packs where they fit, approved account baselines, and IaC modules so new resources inherit the secure setting.
Operational rollout
- Fix the baseline first at the account, subscription, project, cluster, or tenant scope that owns this control.
- Remediate the currently affected resources in batches, starting with internet-exposed and production assets.
- Re-scan and track approved exceptions with an owner and expiry date.
Query logic
These are the stored checks tied to this control.
ECS clusters should use Container Insights
Connectors
Covered asset types
Expected check: eq []
{
ecsClusters(where: {hasECSSettings_NONE: {
key: "containerInsights",
value: "enabled"
}}) {...AssetFragment}
}
