Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon EKS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

This article introduces Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon EKS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). The key points include:

• ADOT enables collection of container and pod metrics from EKS Fargate workloads
• Metrics are collected using a Prometheus receiver that scrapes metrics via Kubernetes API server
• The ADOT Collector processes and transforms metrics before sending them to CloudWatch
• Collected metrics include CPU and memory utilization, network bytes, and other performance indicators
• Metrics are stored in CloudWatch with dimensions like ClusterName, Namespace, and PodName

The article provides a detailed walkthrough of deploying the ADOT Collector to an EKS Fargate cluster, including configuration steps and sample deployment manifests. The goal is to provide comprehensive container performance monitoring for Fargate workloads.