Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights delivers enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with detailed health and performance metrics, enabling customers to visually drill down across container layers, identify issues quickly, and monitor autoscaling status.

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<p>Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now provides enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with detailed health and performance metrics, allowing for faster problem isolation and troubleshooting.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Out-of-the-box metrics including container-level EKS performance, Kube-state, and EKS control plane metrics</li>
<li>Ability to visually drill down across container layers and identify issues like memory leaks</li>
<li>Monitoring of autoscaling status and test cluster lifecycle planning</li>
<li>Sorting clusters, nodes, or workloads by resource consumption to identify anomalies</li>
<li>Setting up alarms to monitor closely and mitigate risks proactively</li>
<li>Getting started by installing the CloudWatch observability add-on in EKS clusters</li>
<li>Availability in all public AWS Regions, including GovCloud and China Regions</li>
<li>New observation-based pricing model</li>
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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon EKS

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