Application Performance Monitoring Enabled by Default in CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on
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This article announces that CloudWatch Application Signals (APM) is now enabled by default in CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on version 5.0.0, eliminating manual configuration requirements.
- Application Signals automatically enabled for all new EKS installations and upgrades
- Automatic service instrumentation without manual configuration or annotations
- Pre-built dashboards surface application performance metrics
- Provides service-level visibility: latency, error rates, request traces
- Available in all commercial AWS regions supporting Application Signals
This change simplifies observability for EKS users by providing out-of-the-box APM capabilities, enabling faster incident detection and root cause analysis.
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