ecs-watchdog

Post a Slack notification to a channel when an AWS ECS task goes into an unexpected STOPPED status.

A project by Elastic Byte. Built with ❤️ in 🎸 Nashville.

Installation

1. Create a AWS Lambda function named ecs-watchdog using the Node.js 12.X runtime. Set the basic setting timeout to something reasonable like 10 seconds from the default to allow for Slack API slowness.

2. Create a webhook in Slack and set the environment variable SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL in the AWS Lambda function.

3. Navigate to CloudWatch and then to Events => Rules. Create a new rule with the following:

Support, Bugs, And Feature Requests

Create issues here in GitHub (https://github.com/elasticbyte/ecs-watchdog/issues).

License & Legal

Copyright 2021 Elastic Byte

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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