Monitor network performance and traffic across your EKS clusters with Container Network Observability

This article announces Container Network Observability in Amazon EKS, a new feature providing comprehensive network monitoring and visualization capabilities for Kubernetes clusters.

• Monitor network performance and traffic patterns across EKS clusters dynamically
• Service map visualizes intercommunication between workloads and application topology
• Flow table shows top talkers from three perspectives: AWS services, cluster, and external
• Performance metrics include ingress/egress flows, packet counts, bytes transferred, and limits
• Metrics exportable in OpenMetrics format compatible with Prometheus and Grafana
• Available in all commercial AWS regions where CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor operates
• Pricing follows standard CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor rates

Container Network Observability enables platform teams to troubleshoot network issues, optimize microservices communication, and maintain operational efficiency as container environments scale.