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Viewing Amazon ECS container health

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Viewing Amazon ECS container health - Amazon Elastic Container Service

You can view the container health in the console, and using the API in the DescribeTasks response. For more information, see DescribeTasks in the Amazon Elastic Container Service API Reference.

If you use logging for your container, for example Amazon CloudWatch Logs, you can configure the health check command to forward the container health output to your logs. Make sure to use 2&1 to catch both the stdout and stderr information.

"command": [
     "CMD-SHELL",
     "curl -f http://localhost/ >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1  || exit 1"
   ],

Related resources

Amazon ECS API Reference
AWS CLI commands for Amazon ECS
SDKs & Tools 

Related resources

Amazon ECS API Reference
AWS CLI commands for Amazon ECS
SDKs & Tools 
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