Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon ECS now publishes container health status as a CloudWatch metric

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Amazon ECS now publishes container health status as a CloudWatch metric through Container Insights with enhanced observability. The UnHealthyContainerHealthStatus metric reports 0 for healthy containers and 1 for unhealthy ones, available across cluster, service, task, and container-level dimensions. Users can create CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications when containers become unhealthy, enabling proactive monitoring and faster incident response. The feature requires enabling Container Insights with enhanced observability and configuring container health checks in task definitions.