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Amazon ECS + Alert24

Stream events from Amazon ECS into Alert24 to correlate changes with incidents and shorten time to resolution.

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Receive Amazon ECS container task and service state change events via EventBridge.

Auto-detected payloads

Alert24 recognizes Amazon ECS webhooks out of the box and maps fields to incidents automatically.

On-call routing & escalations

Page the right engineer over SMS, voice, push, email, or chat with policy-driven escalations.

Auto-updating status pages

Promote incidents to a public or private status page with one click and keep customers informed.

Change correlation & AI RCA

Recent deploys, infra updates, and feature flag flips surface alongside the incident for faster root cause.

Quick Setup

Copy Webhook URL

Go to your Alert24 dashboard and copy the webhook URL for Amazon ECS.

Configure Amazon ECS

Add the webhook URL in your Amazon ECS settings.

Auto-Detected

Alert24 auto-detects Amazon ECS payloads and maps them to incidents.

Step-by-Step Setup Instructions

Amazon ECS Webhook Setup

1.In EventBridge, create a rule with source aws.ecs and detail-type ECS Task State Change or ECS Service Action

2.Set the target to an SNS topic

3.Add an HTTPS subscription to the SNS topic using the webhook URL above

4.Confirm the subscription when you receive the confirmation request

5.ECS automatically emits events when tasks start, stop, or change state

Example Webhook Payload

This is a sample payload that Amazon ECS sends to Alert24 when an alert fires.

{
  "version": "0",
  "source": "aws.ecs",
  "detail-type": "ECS Task State Change",
  "detail": {
    "clusterArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/production",
    "taskArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:task/production/abcdef123456",
    "taskDefinitionArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:task-definition/my-service:42",
    "lastStatus": "STOPPED",
    "desiredStatus": "STOPPED",
    "stoppedReason": "Essential container in task exited",
    "group": "service:my-service",
    "containers": [
      {
        "name": "app",
        "lastStatus": "STOPPED",
        "exitCode": 1,
        "reason": "OutOfMemoryError"
      }
    ],
    "createdAt": "2024-01-15T10:00:00Z",
    "stoppedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
  }
}