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enable-container-insight

Explanation

Cloudwatch Container Insights provide more metrics and logs for container based applications and micro services.

Possible Impact

Not all metrics and logs may be gathered for containers when Container Insights isn't enabled

Suggested Resolution

Enable Container Insights

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the aws-ecs-enable-container-insight check.

resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "bad_example" {
    name = "services-cluster"
}

Secure Example

The following example will pass the aws-ecs-enable-container-insight check.

resource "aws_ecs_cluster" "good_example" {
    name = "services-cluster"

    setting {
      name  = "containerInsights"
      value = "enabled"
    }
}