Monitoring AWS PCS metrics using CloudWatch
You can monitor AWS PCS cluster health using Amazon CloudWatch, which collects data from your cluster and turns it into near real-time metrics. These statistics are retained for a period of 15 months, so that you can access historical information and gain a better perspective on how your cluster is performing. Cluster metrics are sent to CloudWatch at 1-minute periods. For more information about CloudWatch, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch? in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
AWS PCS publishes the following metrics into the AWS/PCS namespace in CloudWatch. They have a single dimension,
ClusterId
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Name | Description | Units |
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ActualCapacity | IdleCapacity + UtilizedCapacity | Count |
CapacityUtilization | UtilizedCapacity / ActualCapacity | Count |
DesiredCapacity | ActualCapacity + PendingCapacity | Count |
IdleCapacity | Count of instances that are running but not allocated to jobs | Count |
UtilizedCapacity | Count of instances that are running and allocated to jobs | Count |