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Amazon EKS enhances Kubernetes control plane monitoring

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Amazon EKS has introduced enhanced Kubernetes control plane monitoring capabilities, offering improved visibility and troubleshooting for cluster administrators.

  • New intuitive dashboards in the EKS console for automatic visualization of control plane metrics
  • Available for EKS clusters running Kubernetes version 1.28 and above
  • Expanded metrics now include kube-scheduler and kube-controller-manager, in addition to existing API server metrics
  • Integration with Amazon CloudWatch Log Insights for surfacing critical log insights
  • Metrics can be viewed in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or third-party monitoring tools
  • Feature available at no additional charge in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions

These enhancements provide cluster administrators with more comprehensive and accessible monitoring capabilities, enabling faster detection and resolution of potential issues.



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