Setup Alarms on CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Alarms
The metrics captured through Container Insights can be used to setup Alarms to get notified of any anomalies in the environment behavior.
In CloudWatch Container Insights we’re going to drill down to create an alarm using CloudWatch for CPU Utilization for our application. Select ECS Services and click on the three vertical dots in the upper right of the CPU Utilization box. And select View in Metrics.
This will take you to a screen such as the one below. You can see that the ecsdemo-frontend service had its CPU Utilization spike quite a bit. Let’s go ahead and setup an Alarm on this metric by clicking the 🔔icon corresponding to ecsdemo-frontend line item.
In the Specify metric conditions screen, leave everything as default and enter 50 in the Define the threshold value screen. By doing this, we are setting the CPU Utilization threshold for the alarm to be 50%. Select Next
In the Configure actions screen, select Create new topic option and enter an email id to which you want the alarm notifications to be sent. Select Next
In the Add a description screen, enter a name for the alarm and select Next
In the review screen, select Create alarm to create the alarm. Once complete, you should be able to see a screen such as the one below.
Now, go to your email Inbox that you entered and look for a confirmation email and confirm that you want to receive alarm notifications from CloudWatch.
Once you click on Confirm subscription, you should see a confirmation screen like the one below.
