Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Telemetry

Choose the right ingestion path for container logs, metrics, and traces from Amazon ECS tasks and AWS Fargate workloads — an ADOT sidecar or FireLens.

Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate emit container stdout / stderr logs from your tasks, plus distributed traces when your applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry.

Recommended method

ADOT — run the OpenTelemetry Collector as a sidecar to send logs, metrics, and traces directly to Bronto over OTLP. It bypasses CloudWatch and gives Lambda, ECS, and EKS workloads consistent resource identity.

Alternatives

• ECS FireLens — Fluent Bit sidecar that ships logs from your task; lighter operational footprint than a full collector.
• CloudWatch Log Forwarder — for tasks that already write to CloudWatch Log Groups via the awslogs driver.

See Ingesting AWS Data into Bronto for the full service-to-method mapping.

References

• Amazon ECS — using FireLens for log routing