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Amazon ECS Task Metadata Endpoint

Beginning with version 1.17.0 of the Amazon ECS container agent, various task metadata and Docker stats are available to tasks that use the awsvpc network mode at an HTTP endpoint that is provided by the Amazon ECS container agent.

Note

The task metadata endpoint is supported for Fargate tasks if using platform version v1.1.0 or later. For more information, see AWS Fargate Platform Versions.

All containers belonging to tasks that are launched with the awsvpc network mode receive a local IPv4 address within a predefined link-local address range. When a container queries the metadata endpoint, the Amazon ECS container agent can determine which task the container belongs to based on its unique IP address, and metadata and stats for that task are returned.

For information about a sample Go application that queries the metadata and stats API endpoints, see https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/blob/2bf4348a0ff89e23be4e82a6c5ff28edf777092c/misc/taskmetadata-validator/taskmetadata-validator.go.

Enabling Task Metadata

This feature is enabled by default for tasks that use the awsvpc network mode and are launched on Amazon EC2 infrastructure running at least version 1.17.0 of the Amazon ECS container agent. For more information, see Amazon ECS Container Agent Versions.

You can add support for this feature on older container instances by updating the agent to the latest version. For more information, see Updating the Amazon ECS Container Agent.

Task Metadata Endpoint Paths

The following API endpoints are available to containers:

169.254.170.2/v2/metadata

This endpoint returns metadata JSON for the task, including a list of the container IDs and names for all of the containers associated with the task. For more information about the response for this endpoint, see Task Metadata JSON Response.

169.254.170.2/v2/metadata/<container-id>

This endpoint returns metadata JSON for the specified Docker container ID.

169.254.170.2/v2/stats

This endpoint returns Docker stats JSON for all of the containers associated with the task. For more information about each of the returned stats, see ContainerStats in the Docker API documentation.

169.254.170.2/v2/stats/<container-id>

This endpoint returns Docker stats JSON for the specified Docker container ID. For more information about each of the returned stats, see ContainerStats in the Docker API documentation.

Task Metadata JSON Response

The following information is returned from the task metadata endpoint (169.254.170.2/v2/metadata) JSON response.

Cluster

The Amazon ECS cluster to which the task belongs.

TaskARN

The full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task to which the container belongs.

Family

The family of the Amazon ECS task definition for the task.

Revision

The revision of the Amazon ECS task definition for the task.

DesiredStatus

The desired status for the task from Amazon ECS.

KnownStatus

The known status for the task from Amazon ECS.

Containers

A list of container metadata for each container associated with the task.

DockerId

The Docker ID for the container.

Name

The name of the container as specified in the task definition.

DockerName

The name of the container supplied to Docker. The Amazon ECS container agent generates a unique name for the container to avoid name collisions when multiple copies of the same task definition are run on a single instance.

Image

The image for the container.

ImageID

The SHA-256 digest for the image.

Ports

Any ports exposed for the container. This parameter is omitted if there are no exposed ports.

Labels

Any labels applied to the container. This parameter is omitted if there are no labels applied.

DesiredStatus

The desired status for the container from Amazon ECS.

KnownStatus

The known status for the container from Amazon ECS.

ExitCode

The exit code for the container. This parameter is omitted if the container has not exited.

Limits

The resource limits specified at the container level (such as CPU and memory). This parameter is omitted if no resource limits are defined.

CreatedAt

The time stamp for when the container was created. This parameter is omitted if the container has not been created yet.

StartedAt

The time stamp for when the container started. This parameter is omitted if the container has not started yet.

FinishedAt

The time stamp for when the container stopped. This parameter is omitted if the container has not stopped yet.

Type

The type of the container. Containers that are specified in your task definition are of type NORMAL. You can ignore other container types, which are used for internal task resource provisioning by the Amazon ECS container agent.

Networks

The network information for the container, such as the network mode and IP address. This parameter is omitted if no network information is defined.

Limits

The resource limits specified at the task level (such as CPU and memory). This parameter is omitted if no resource limits are defined.

PullStartedAt

The time stamp for when the first container image pull began.

PullStoppedAt

The time stamp for when the last container image pull finished.

ExecutionStoppedAt

The time stamp for when the task's DesiredStatus moved to STOPPED. This occurs when an essential container moves to STOPPED.

Example Task Metadata Response

The following JSON response is for a single-container task.

{
  "Cluster": "default",
  "TaskARN": "arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:012345678910:task/9781c248-0edd-4cdb-9a93-f63cb662a5d3",
  "Family": "nginx",
  "Revision": "5",
  "DesiredStatus": "RUNNING",
  "KnownStatus": "RUNNING",
  "Containers": [
    {
      "DockerId": "731a0d6a3b4210e2448339bc7015aaa79bfe4fa256384f4102db86ef94cbbc4c",
      "Name": "~internal~ecs~pause",
      "DockerName": "ecs-nginx-5-internalecspause-acc699c0cbf2d6d11700",
      "Image": "amazon/amazon-ecs-pause:0.1.0",
      "ImageID": "",
      "Labels": {
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster": "default",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name": "~internal~ecs~pause",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:012345678910:task/9781c248-0edd-4cdb-9a93-f63cb662a5d3",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family": "nginx",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version": "5"
      },
      "DesiredStatus": "RESOURCES_PROVISIONED",
      "KnownStatus": "RESOURCES_PROVISIONED",
      "Limits": {
        "CPU": 0,
        "Memory": 0
      },
      "CreatedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:08.366329616Z",
      "StartedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:09.058354915Z",
      "Type": "CNI_PAUSE",
      "Networks": [
        {
          "NetworkMode": "awsvpc",
          "IPv4Addresses": [
            "10.0.2.106"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "DockerId": "43481a6ce4842eec8fe72fc28500c6b52edcc0917f105b83379f88cac1ff3946",
      "Name": "nginx-curl",
      "DockerName": "ecs-nginx-5-nginx-curl-ccccb9f49db0dfe0d901",
      "Image": "nrdlngr/nginx-curl",
      "ImageID": "sha256:2e00ae64383cfc865ba0a2ba37f61b50a120d2d9378559dcd458dc0de47bc165",
      "Labels": {
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.cluster": "default",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.container-name": "nginx-curl",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-arn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:012345678910:task/9781c248-0edd-4cdb-9a93-f63cb662a5d3",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-family": "nginx",
        "com.amazonaws.ecs.task-definition-version": "5"
      },
      "DesiredStatus": "RUNNING",
      "KnownStatus": "RUNNING",
      "Limits": {
        "CPU": 512,
        "Memory": 512
      },
      "CreatedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:10.554941919Z",
      "StartedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:11.064236631Z",
      "Type": "NORMAL",
      "Networks": [
        {
          "NetworkMode": "awsvpc",
          "IPv4Addresses": [
            "10.0.2.106"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "PullStartedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:09.372495529Z",
  "PullStoppedAt": "2018-02-01T20:55:10.552018345Z"
}