
Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring uses eBPF agents to detect threats in Kubernetes clusters with minimal performance impact, generating over 30 security findings based on container runtime activities.


<div><p>This article explains how to measure the performance impact of Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring agent on Kubernetes clusters.</p><ul><li>GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring uses eBPF agent to detect threats in container runtime environments</li><li>Agent deployed as DaemonSet with 1000m CPU and 1GB memory limits</li><li>Inspektor Gadget can measure eBPF program performance; agent ran 1ms per 4-second window in testing</li><li>kubectl top command shows agent CPU and memory usage as percentage of node resources</li><li>Over 30 new security findings generated from runtime events like process execution and network connections</li><li>30-day free trial available; may reduce VPC Flow Log Analysis charges</li><li>Easy deployment through Amazon GuardDuty console with minimal administration overhead</li></ul><p>GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring provides detailed threat detection with negligible cluster performance impact and simple enablement.</p></div>


Related articles