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# AWS::ECS::Service MonitoringConfiguration
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The optional monitoring configuration for a service, which defines the resolution for the service-level `CPUUtilization` and `MemoryUtilization` Amazon CloudWatch metrics. When not specified, Amazon ECS uses the default resolution of `60` seconds.

## Syntax
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To declare this entity in your CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

### JSON
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```
{
  "[MetricConfigurations](#cfn-ecs-service-monitoringconfiguration-metricconfigurations)" : {{[ MetricConfiguration, ... ]}}
}
```

### YAML
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```
  [MetricConfigurations](#cfn-ecs-service-monitoringconfiguration-metricconfigurations): {{
    - MetricConfiguration}}
```

## Properties
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`MetricConfigurations`  <a name="cfn-ecs-service-monitoringconfiguration-metricconfigurations"></a>
The list of metric configurations for the service monitoring.  
*Required*: Yes  
*Type*: Array of [MetricConfiguration](aws-properties-ecs-service-metricconfiguration.md)  
*Minimum*: `1`  
*Maximum*: `2`  
*Update requires*: [No interruption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-update-behaviors.html#update-no-interrupt)