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Telegraf

  • Telegraf v1.11.0+
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Amazon Elastic Container Service Input Plugin

This plugin gathers statistics on running containers in a Task from the Amazon Elastic Container Service using the Amazon ECS metadata and the v2 or v3 statistics API endpoints.

The telegraf container must be run in the same Task as the workload it is inspecting.

The amazon-ecs-agent (though it is a container running on the host) is not present in the metadata/stats endpoints.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.11.0 Tags: cloud OS support: all

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read metrics about ECS containers
[[inputs.ecs]]
  ## ECS metadata url.
  ## Metadata v2 API is used if set explicitly. Otherwise,
  ## v3 metadata endpoint API is used if available.
  # endpoint_url = ""

  ## Containers to include and exclude. Globs accepted.
  ## Note that an empty array for both will include all containers
  # container_name_include = []
  # container_name_exclude = []

  ## Container states to include and exclude. Globs accepted.
  ## When empty only containers in the "RUNNING" state will be captured.
  ## Possible values are "NONE", "PULLED", "CREATED", "RUNNING",
  ## "RESOURCES_PROVISIONED", "STOPPED".
  # container_status_include = []
  # container_status_exclude = []

  ## ecs labels to include and exclude as tags.  Globs accepted.
  ## Note that an empty array for both will include all labels as tags
  ecs_label_include = [ "com.amazonaws.ecs.*" ]
  ecs_label_exclude = []

  ## Timeout for queries.
  # timeout = "5s"

Configuration (enforce v2 metadata)

# Read metrics about ECS containers
[[inputs.ecs]]
  ## ECS metadata url.
  ## Metadata v2 API is used if set explicitly. Otherwise,
  ## v3 metadata endpoint API is used if available.
  endpoint_url = "http://169.254.170.2"

  ## Containers to include and exclude. Globs accepted.
  ## Note that an empty array for both will include all containers
  # container_name_include = []
  # container_name_exclude = []

  ## Container states to include and exclude. Globs accepted.
  ## When empty only containers in the "RUNNING" state will be captured.
  ## Possible values are "NONE", "PULLED", "CREATED", "RUNNING",
  ## "RESOURCES_PROVISIONED", "STOPPED".
  # container_status_include = []
  # container_status_exclude = []

  ## ecs labels to include and exclude as tags.  Globs accepted.
  ## Note that an empty array for both will include all labels as tags
  ecs_label_include = [ "com.amazonaws.ecs.*" ]
  ecs_label_exclude = []

  ## Timeout for queries.
  # timeout = "5s"

Metrics

  • ecs_task

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
    • fields:
      • desired_status (string)
      • known_status (string)
      • limit_cpu (float)
      • limit_mem (float)

  • ecs_container_mem

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
    • fields:
      • container_id
      • active_anon
      • active_file
      • cache
      • hierarchical_memory_limit
      • inactive_anon
      • inactive_file
      • mapped_file
      • pgfault
      • pgmajfault
      • pgpgin
      • pgpgout
      • rss
      • rss_huge
      • total_active_anon
      • total_active_file
      • total_cache
      • total_inactive_anon
      • total_inactive_file
      • total_mapped_file
      • total_pgfault
      • total_pgmajfault
      • total_pgpgin
      • total_pgpgout
      • total_rss
      • total_rss_huge
      • total_unevictable
      • total_writeback
      • unevictable
      • writeback
      • fail_count
      • limit
      • max_usage
      • usage
      • usage_percent

  • ecs_container_cpu

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
      • cpu
    • fields:
      • container_id
      • usage_total
      • usage_in_usermode
      • usage_in_kernelmode
      • usage_system
      • throttling_periods
      • throttling_throttled_periods
      • throttling_throttled_time
      • usage_percent
      • usage_total

  • ecs_container_net

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
      • network
    • fields:
      • container_id
      • rx_packets
      • rx_dropped
      • rx_bytes
      • rx_errors
      • tx_packets
      • tx_dropped
      • tx_bytes
      • tx_errors

  • ecs_container_blkio

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
      • device
    • fields:
      • container_id
      • io_service_bytes_recursive_async
      • io_service_bytes_recursive_read
      • io_service_bytes_recursive_sync
      • io_service_bytes_recursive_total
      • io_service_bytes_recursive_write
      • io_serviced_recursive_async
      • io_serviced_recursive_read
      • io_serviced_recursive_sync
      • io_serviced_recursive_total
      • io_serviced_recursive_write

  • ecs_container_meta

    • tags:
      • cluster
      • task_arn
      • family
      • revision
      • id
      • name
    • fields:
      • container_id
      • docker_name
      • image
      • image_id
      • desired_status
      • known_status
      • limit_cpu
      • limit_mem
      • created_at
      • started_at
      • type

Example Output

ecs_task,cluster=test,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a desired_status="RUNNING",known_status="RUNNING",limit_cpu=0.5,limit_mem=512 1542641488000000000
ecs_container_mem,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a active_anon=40960i,active_file=8192i,cache=790528i,pgpgin=1243i,total_pgfault=1298i,total_rss=40960i,limit=1033658368i,max_usage=4825088i,hierarchical_memory_limit=536870912i,rss=40960i,total_active_file=8192i,total_mapped_file=618496i,usage_percent=0.05349543109392212,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",pgfault=1298i,pgmajfault=6i,pgpgout=1040i,total_active_anon=40960i,total_inactive_file=782336i,total_pgpgin=1243i,usage=552960i,inactive_file=782336i,mapped_file=618496i,total_cache=790528i,total_pgpgout=1040i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_cpu,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,cpu=cpu-total,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a usage_in_kernelmode=0i,throttling_throttled_periods=0i,throttling_periods=0i,throttling_throttled_time=0i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",usage_percent=0,usage_total=26426156i,usage_in_usermode=20000000i,usage_system=2336100000000i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_cpu,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,cpu=cpu0,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",usage_total=26426156i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_net,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,network=eth0,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a rx_errors=0i,rx_packets=36i,tx_errors=0i,tx_bytes=648i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",rx_dropped=0i,rx_bytes=5338i,tx_packets=8i,tx_dropped=0i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_net,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,network=eth5,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a rx_errors=0i,tx_packets=9i,rx_packets=26i,tx_errors=0i,rx_bytes=4641i,tx_dropped=0i,tx_bytes=690i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",rx_dropped=0i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_net,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,network=total,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a rx_dropped=0i,rx_bytes=9979i,rx_errors=0i,rx_packets=62i,tx_bytes=1338i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",tx_packets=17i,tx_dropped=0i,tx_errors=0i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_blkio,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,device=253:1,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=790528i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=10i,io_serviced_recursive_write=0i,io_serviced_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_total=10i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",io_service_bytes_recursive_read=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_write=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_read=10i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_blkio,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,device=253:2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=790528i,io_serviced_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_total=10i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",io_service_bytes_recursive_read=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_write=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_read=10i,io_serviced_recursive_write=0i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=10i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_blkio,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,device=253:4,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a io_service_bytes_recursive_write=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_async=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=790528i,io_serviced_recursive_async=0i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",io_service_bytes_recursive_read=790528i,io_serviced_recursive_read=10i,io_serviced_recursive_write=0i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=10i,io_serviced_recursive_total=10i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_blkio,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,device=202:26368,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a io_serviced_recursive_read=10i,io_serviced_recursive_write=0i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=10i,io_serviced_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_total=10i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_async=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_read=790528i,io_service_bytes_recursive_write=0i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_blkio,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,device=total,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a io_serviced_recursive_async=0i,io_serviced_recursive_read=40i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=40i,io_serviced_recursive_write=0i,io_serviced_recursive_total=40i,io_service_bytes_recursive_read=3162112i,io_service_bytes_recursive_write=0i,io_service_bytes_recursive_async=0i,container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=3162112i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=3162112i 1542642001000000000
ecs_container_meta,cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster=test,com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name=~internal~ecs~pause,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family=nginx,com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version=2,family=nginx,host=c4b301d4a123,id=e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba,name=~internal~ecs~pause,revision=2,task_arn=arn:aws:ecs:aws-region-1:012345678901:task/a1234abc-a0a0-0a01-ab01-0abc012a0a0a limit_mem=0,type="CNI_PAUSE",container_id="e6af031b91deb3136a2b7c42f262ed2ab554e2fe2736998c7d8edf4afe708dba",docker_name="ecs-nginx-2-internalecspause",limit_cpu=0,known_status="RESOURCES_PROVISIONED",image="amazon/amazon-ecs-pause:0.1.0",image_id="",desired_status="RESOURCES_PROVISIONED" 1542642001000000000

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