Case Study: Sunrun achieves unified monitoring and continuous container security on Amazon ECS with Sysdig

Sunrun - Customer Case Study

Sunrun, the largest dedicated residential solar company in the U.S., runs dozens of VMs and hundreds of containers on AWS ECS to support customer‑facing, revenue‑critical applications with a three‑person DevOps team. Their challenge was gaining container‑aware, service‑level monitoring and continuous runtime security for a highly dynamic microservices environment without heavy instrumentation or extra operational overhead.

They deployed Sysdig’s single agent and adopted Sysdig Monitor and Secure, which auto‑discovered ECS metadata, grouped containers by service, and provided unified dashboards, alerts, and policy‑driven security. The low‑footprint, single‑agent approach simplified management, saved an estimated 5–10% per‑host resources, improved troubleshooting (including system‑call captures), and delivered consolidated performance and security visibility across their containerized services.

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