Automate monitoring for your Amazon EKS cluster using CloudWatch Container Insights
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This article presents an automated solution for monitoring an Amazon EKS cluster using CloudWatch Container Insights, Terraform, CloudFormation, and other AWS services. It addresses the dynamic nature of EKS worker nodes that scale up and down based on workload demands.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Understanding the dynamic nature of EKS nodes
- Architectural overview of the solution with static and dynamic alarm flows
- Prerequisites for setting up the solution
- Step-by-step walkthrough for deploying the infrastructure and configuring alarms
- Troubleshooting steps for common issues
- Conclusion and additional resources for learning more about CloudWatch Container Insights
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