ECS container termination issues

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ashok reddy C k

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Jan 21, 2026, 11:56:05 PM (4 days ago) Jan 21
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Hi Chad,

We have seen a few issues in ecs agents' terminations, and profiles failed to execute.

ecs plugin version: 
8.0.0-775

docker version: 20

base image: CentOS-9


Amazon ECS Agent - v1.84.0 old version


Errors:

Error terminating container with id: GoCD48038f537cff4ecc85d470ea1b457040
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 437fadc6-dfa4-4def-8a61-82cb8f69f913; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD315a8c8eb0c9410896e5d4c9646f2772
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 8be036f6-2c44-4166-aded-b926f427192e; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD4eeaed4c9e00455d9ce6fd8cf2283ca6
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: b6024dac-e5d3-40be-a3a8-53ec748cc1bb; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD959e980be51940a389f04ed1f5bad8dc
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 117d1239-54ef-4530-ac8a-11feaa70201f; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCDb6d294487d514f31a503ff6a67612cd2
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 9e5cbbe2-235f-4109-811e-5aca792a57d4; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD6a3b736d1e594270af940d6a2771dee1
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: bf18192f-5155-4e7e-9d17-c53918f14797; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCDe9a2b208cae14341a386190dfec47371
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 66c0855e-d66c-4ff7-bd0b-be020296fe9b; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD9981bcf9774f44939ac2c6d436893b96
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 01dad4e8-2926-4165-85d7-394de204bb17; Proxy: null)
Error terminating container with id: GoCD7f08715f386d481497275388b431e9d5
The task definition could not be deregistered because it is in the process of being deleted. (Service: AmazonECS; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ClientException; Request ID: 3dd406be-bb10-4d08-88c9-e9c5b89dc6d0; Proxy: null)

Chad Wilson

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Jan 22, 2026, 12:09:45 AM (4 days ago) Jan 22
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The errors seem to imply tasks are trying to be deleted/cleaned up multiple times, which shouldn't normally happen.

Look at the ECS plugin-specific log in the logs folder and try and trace the sequence of events for an individual agent/container. I'd need to see proper logs to see what is happening.

If there is not enough detail, you may want to consider adding -Dplugin.com.thoughtworks.gocd.elasticagent.ecs.log.level=debug to your server startup-arg JVM argos so you can see more of what the plugin is doing.

-Chad

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