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New Relic detects an incident for CPU spikes in an ECS task
Validate your observability to detect a CPU spike in your AWS ECS cluster
Motivation
When you have New Relic configured to detect CPU spikes in your AWS ECS cluster, you can easily validate your observability strategy with this experiment template.
Structure
First, we validate whether New Relic has no ongoing incident. After that, we inject the CPU spike for an ECS service and expected that New Relic detect this as an incident within the given time frame of 3 minutes.
AWS ECS Service Is Scaled up Within Reasonable Time
Verify that your ECS service is scaled up on increased CPU usage.
Motivation
Important ECS services should be scaled up within a reasonable time for an elastic and resilient cloud infrastructure. Undetected high CPU spikes and long startup times are undesirable in these infrastructures.
Structure
First, we ensure that all ECS service's tasks are ready to serve traffic. Afterward, we inject high CPU usage into the ECS task and expect that within a reasonable amount of time, ECS increases the number of ECS tasks and they become ready to handle incoming traffic.
