AWS ECS service monitor

Project Notes

Objective
Get metrics of AWS ECS service Memory & CPU.

Prerequisites
Python3
boto3 extention (using: pip install boto3)
AWS cli installed
AWS Access key, Secret key and Region configured

Usage
./ecs_service_memory_cpu.py [-h] [–namespace NAMESPACE] [–metricname METRICNAME] [–clustername CLUSTERNAME]
[–servicename SERVICENAME] [–period PERIOD] [–statistics STATISTICS]
[–unit UNIT] [–ok_threshold OK_THRESHOLD] [–warning_threshold WARNING_THRESHOLD]
[–critical_threshold CRITICAL_THRESHOLD]
Arguments
-h, –help
Show this help message and exit

–namespace NAMESPACE
CloudWatch namespaces are containers for metrics.
For example: AWS/ECS

–metricname METRICNAME
Metrics are data about the performance of your systems.
For example: MemoryUtilization

–clustername CLUSTERNAME
This dimension filters the data you request for all resources in a specified cluster.

–servicename SERVICENAME
This dimension filters the data you request for all resources in a specified service within a specified cluster.

–period PERIOD
A period is the length of time associated with a specific Amazon CloudWatch statistic.
For example: to specify a period of 5 minutes, use 300 as the period value.

–statistics STATISTICS
Statistics are metric data aggregations over specified periods of time.
For example: Average

–unit UNIT
Each statistic has a unit of measure.
For example: Percent

–ok_threshold OK_THRESHOLD
Threshold which reflects the OK status value. (Recommended threshold: 86)

–warning_threshold WARNING_THRESHOLD
Threshold which reflects the Warning status value. (Recommended threshold: 86)

–critical_threshold CRITICAL_THRESHOLD
Threshold which reflects the Critical status value. (Recommended threshold: 96)