Request: Add StartedBy field to ECS Task Metadata

[dimapetuk]

As described in the Task API, startedBy tag is useful for us to keep basic metadata about the task.

We'd like it to be included in the ECS Task Metadata in order to be able to receive it in tools like OpenTelemetry.

[mye956]

Hello! Just to clarify, you're asking to obtain the deployment ID of a service via TMDS?

The tag specified when a task is started. If an Amazon ECS service started the task, the startedBy parameter contains the deployment ID of that service.

If so, not sure if ECS agent could get this information passed down to us as of today and would require some amount of work not just in agent. Just curious, could you briefly describe what use cases you'd need the deployment ID of a service within the task host level?

FWIW, ECS agent also does not know whether a task is apart of a service or just a standalone task.