## TL;DR

The circuit breaker rolled the deployment back because new tasks kept failing to become healthy. Open the service's deployments view and read the events - they name the failing task - then debug that task like any stopped task: exit code, stopped reason, logs. Fix the underlying failure and let the service attempt the deployment again.

```text
ECS service stuck in deployment: circuit breaker debugging
```

## Steps

1. Open the service events and confirm the circuit breaker message, noting which task definition revision it tried.
Expected: You confirm the breaker tripped and know the failed revision.

2. Find the failed tasks from that deployment and read their stopped reasons and container exit codes.
Expected: You have the concrete failure behind the rollback.

3. Pull the container logs and identify the root cause: crash loop, failed health check, or config error.
Expected: You know what to fix.

4. Fix the cause, register a corrected revision, and update the service. The breaker resets on a successful deployment.
Expected: The new deployment completes and the service stabilizes.

## Use this when

- Service events show the deployment circuit breaker triggered a rollback.

- A deployment never finishes and the service stays on the old revision.

- New tasks start but never reach steady state.

## Not for this skill when

- Deployments blocked purely by minimum healthy percent with no breaker involvement.

- CodeDeploy blue-green deployment problems (different mechanism).

- Services running with the circuit breaker disabled.

## Variant phrasings

### ECS deployment circuit breaker rollback

### ECS service deployment failed circuit breaker

### ECS circuit breaker triggered

## Why it happens

The circuit breaker watches each deployment: if new tasks repeatedly fail to become healthy, it stops the rollout and rolls back to the last stable revision. The breaker is the messenger - the real fault is whatever is killing the new tasks.

## Edge cases

- The breaker only engages when enabled on the service; older services may not have it.

- A minimum healthy percent of 100 combined with failing new tasks can wedge a deployment even before the breaker acts.

- Health check grace period set too short fails tasks that just start slowly.

- After several failed revisions, verify you are deploying the fixed revision and not re-deploying a broken one.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_TDvNLMK5WOahLn9pGkoX_w

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_jO0J8oiNtknhBdkOEMnmfQ/versions/skv_J3Pdqj26kLzwYHuNLcSNNQ>
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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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