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Automating metrics collection on Amazon EKS with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus managed scrapers

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This article discusses automating metrics collection on Amazon EKS using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus managed scrapers. It provides a solution to offload the overhead of self-managing agents to collect Prometheus metrics by using a fully-managed agentless scraper.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Prerequisites for setting up managed scrapers
  • Automating scraper creation using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
  • Validating the setup using AWS CLI, console, and CloudWatch metrics
  • Updating scraper configuration without disrupting metrics collection
  • Visualizing metrics using Amazon Managed Grafana
  • Cleaning up resources created
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