Issues

• Task placed into a slot freed by a stopping task stays PENDING (no image pull) until an unrelated task event on the host, or ~15–20 min

  scope/ECS Managed Instances
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5138 · Filter by author dbinnersley opened on Sep 15, 2026

• Agent reports task STOPPED/OutOfMemoryError from a stale OOMKilled flag while the container keeps running

  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5135 · Filter by author dpresling opened on Sep 12, 2026
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• How to obtain real process memory usage

  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5113 · Filter by author frisi opened on Aug 28, 2026

• DomainNameServers is propagated to task metadata verbatim, including values that are not valid IP addresses

  kind/bugscope/Fargate
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5111 · Filter by author arnarpall opened on Aug 27, 2026
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• ACS read loop stalls in synchronous handleMessage (boltdb commit on contended disk) — tasks stuck PENDING for 30+ min while agent reports healthy

  researching
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5096 · Filter by author cenk-df opened on Aug 19, 2026

• FireLens container intermittently starts before secretOptions env vars are injected on ECS Managed Instances (RunTask), causing Fluent Bit exit 255

  scope/ECS Managed Instances
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#5084 · Filter by author janbuecker opened on Aug 4, 2026
  2

• ecs-agent depends on deprecated Docker packages

  kind/enhancement
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#4939 · Filter by author SuperQ opened on Apr 23, 2026
  5

• EFS access_point posix_user: How to add task_definition volume without CannotCreateContainerError: operation not permitted (UID:GID mismatch)

  kind/enhancement
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#4702 · Filter by author Cameronsplaze opened on Jul 6, 2025
  3

• Discrepancy in network TX/RX rate as reported by AWS ECS insights and task metadata endpoint

  scope/Fargate
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#4505 · Filter by author sergei-ivanov opened on Feb 15, 2025

• Add retries for publishing metrics & health checks

  contributions welcomegood first issuekind/enhancement
  aws/amazon-ecs-agent#4105 · Filter by author strategicpause opened on Mar 5, 2024
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