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Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon EKS on EC2

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This blog post announces the release of Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on EC2.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights provides observability for containerized applications and microservice environments on AWS
  • The enhanced observability feature adds additional telemetry from Kubernetes control plane components, detailed health and performance metrics up to the container level, and Kube-State metrics
  • How to enable enhanced observability for Amazon EKS using the CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on
  • Overview of the Container Insights dashboard, including cluster status, alarms, top resource consumers, and performance monitoring views
  • Using the performance monitoring dashboards to analyze metrics at different levels (cluster, node, pod, container) and troubleshoot issues
  • Creating alarms based on metric thresholds and adding graphs to dashboards
  • The new unified and competitive pricing model for enhanced observability
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits of improved visibility and faster troubleshooting for Kubernetes environments on EKS


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