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Observing Kubernetes workloads on AWS Fargate with AWS managed open-source services

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This article discusses monitoring Kubernetes workloads on AWS Fargate using AWS managed open-source services like Amazon Managed Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana. The key points covered are:

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Setting up Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS Fargate to run containers without managing worker nodes
  • Using the AWS CDK Observability Accelerator to provision observability resources like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry Collector
  • Monitoring EKS Fargate cluster infrastructure with out-of-the-box Grafana dashboards
  • Deploying NGINX ingress controller and monitoring it with Grafana
  • Deploying a Java workload and monitoring JVM, Java, and Tomcat metrics using Grafana dashboards
  • Conclusion with references for further learning


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