# ECS enhanced monitoring for CloudWatch metrics

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## Overview[​](#overview "Direct link to Overview")

Coralogix offers ECS enhanced monitoring, an extension to AWS Metrics from CloudWatch using the [Amazon ECS API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html) to collect tags and additional metrics.

This approach saves some calls to `resroucegrouptagging` API and adds all the new metrics that are specified in this document under [Collected data](#collected-data).

## Prerequisites[​](#prerequisites "Direct link to Prerequisites")

* [AWS Metrics from CloudWatch](https://docs-docusaurus.kinsta.page/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatch/aws-metrics-via-cloudwatch/.md) integration

* Policy permissions used for this integration:

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  * `ecs:DescribeContainerInstances`
  * `ecs:DescribeClusters`
  * `ecs:DescribeServices`
  * `ecs:ListContainerInstances`
  * `ecs:ListClusters`
  * `ecs:ListServices`

## Configuration[​](#configuration "Direct link to Configuration")

* `EcsEnhancedMonitoring` toggle in the [AWS Metrics from CloudWatch](https://docs-docusaurus.kinsta.page/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatch/aws-metrics-via-cloudwatch/.md) integration configuration

## Collected data[​](#collected-data "Direct link to Collected data")

### Metrics[​](#metrics "Direct link to Metrics")

| Metric Name                                                     | Dimensions               | Description               |
| --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------- |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_Service\_DesiredTask\_count           | ClusterName, ServiceName |                           |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_Service\_RunningTask\_count           | ClusterName, ServiceName |                           |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_Service\_PendingTask\_count           | ClusterName, ServiceName |                           |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_ContainerInstance\_DesiredTask\_count | ClusterName, InstanceId  | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_ContainerInstance\_PendingTask\_count | ClusterName, InstanceId  | container instance metric |
| amazonaws\_com\_AWS\_ECS\_ContainerInstance\_Status             | ClusterName, InstanceId  | container instance metric |