Amazon EKS enhances Kubernetes control plane observability
Containers Blog
This article discusses new enhancements to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that provide visibility into the performance of the Kubernetes control plane. This allows cluster administrators to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues with workloads running on the clusters.
Specifically, the article covers:
- New curated dashboards in the Amazon EKS console displaying key control plane metrics like API server requests, etcd database size, and kube-scheduler metrics
- Introduction of new Kubernetes control plane metrics available in Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and setting alarms
- A new Prometheus endpoint exposing control plane metrics for integration with observability tools like Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
- A walkthrough demonstrating how to set up Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to scrape and visualize the new control plane metrics
- Key considerations and recommendations for using the new observability features
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