# 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.

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 ** metricConfigurations **   <a name="ECS-Type-MonitoringConfiguration-metricConfigurations"></a>
The list of metric configurations for the service monitoring.  
Type: Array of [MetricConfiguration](API_MetricConfiguration.md) objects  
Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 5 items.  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/ecs-2014-11-13/MonitoringConfiguration) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/ecs-2014-11-13/MonitoringConfiguration) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/ecs-2014-11-13/MonitoringConfiguration)