Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a strong choice for developers aiming to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS cloud. ECS tasks are the heart of application deployment in the ECS environment, providing flexibility and granularity needed for deploying complex applications. The decision to scale ECS tasks is guided by key indicators such as high CPU or memory utilization, increased application load, pending task count, and network limitations. Effective monitoring is an indispensable aspect of managing applications within the AWS ECS ecosystem, allowing developers to identify issues, optimize resource allocation, and ensure seamless operations. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray provide detailed insights about ECS tasks, services, and clusters, while Lumigo offers comprehensive observability and end-to-end tracing for proactive issue detection and optimization. Proactive monitoring provides the insights needed to pinpoint and resolve issues, make the most of resources, and ensure applications are primed to scale with business demands.