AWS ECS custom CloudWatch metrics

Question

I'm looking for a way to establish custom metrics over StatsD protocol for Amazon Elastic Container Service. I've found a documentation on how to establish Amazon CloudWatch Agent on EC2 . It works well. However I'm failing to find a correct configuration for Dockerfile. Quite probably some set of custom IAM permissions will also be required there.

Is it possible to have Docker containers working from AWS ECS with custom metrics using StatsD reporting to AWS CloudWatch?

Answer 1

Rather than building your own container, you can use the one provided by Amazon. This article explains how, including a link to an example daemon service task configuration .