Prometheus service discovery for AWS ECS

Having Prometheus automatically discover your AWS ECS services makes life a lot easier since you don’t have to manage Prometheus target configurations across environments. Although Prometheus doesn’t provide it out-of-the-box, in this article you’ll discover exactly how to setup service discovery for ECS by combining a few simple tools. By the end, we’ll have a full working example with Prometheus running in AWS ECS and discovering other ECS services whose metrics we’re interested in....

June 15, 2020 · Tom Gregory