Install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on - Amazon CloudWatch

Install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on

You can use the Amazon EKS add-on to install Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS. The add-on installs the CloudWatch agent to send infrastructure metrics from the cluster, installs Fluent Bit to send container logs, and also enables CloudWatch Application Signals to send application performance telemetry.

When you use the Amazon EKS add-on version 1.5.0 or later, Container Insights is enabled on both Linux and Windows worker nodes in the cluster. Currently, Application Signals is not supported on Windows in Amazon EKS.

The Amazon EKS add-on is not supported for clusters running Kubernetes instead of Amazon EKS.

For more information about the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on, see Install the CloudWatch agent with the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on or the Helm chart.

To install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on

  1. First, set up the necessary permissions by attaching the CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy IAM policy to your worker nodes. To do so, enter the following command. Replace my-worker-node-role with the IAM role used by your Kubernetes worker nodes.

    aws iam attach-role-policy \
--role-name my-worker-node-role \
--policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy

  2. Enter the following command to install the add-on:

    aws eks create-addon --cluster-name my-cluster-name --addon-name amazon-cloudwatch-observability