Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS
On November 6, 2023, a new version of Container Insights was released. This version supports enhanced observability for Amazon EKS clusters running on Amazon EC2 and can collect more detailed metrics from these clusters. After installation, it automatically collects detailed infrastructure telemetry and container logs for your Amazon EKS clusters. You can then use curated, immediately usable dashboards to drill down into application and infrastructure telemetry.
Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS collects granular health, performance, and status metrics up to the container level, and also control plane metrics. For more information about the additional metrics and dimensions collected, see Amazon EKS and Kubernetes Container Insights with enhanced observability metrics.
If you installed Container Insights by using the CloudWatch agent on an Amazon EKS cluster on Amazon EC2 after November 6, 2023, you have Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS. Otherwise, you can upgrade an Amazon EKS cluster to this new version by following the instructions in Upgrading to Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS in CloudWatch.
Container Insights supports CloudWatch cross-account observability. You use a single monitoring account to monitor and troubleshoot your applications that span multiple AWS accounts within a single Region. For more information, see CloudWatch cross-account observability.
Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS also supports Windows worker nodes.
Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS is not supported on Fargate.
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You can find whether you have clusters that can be upgraded to Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS by navigating to the Container Insights console. To do so, choose Insights, Container Insights in the navigation pane of the CloudWatch console. In the Container Insights console, a banner informs you if you have any Amazon EKS clusters that can be upgraded, and links to the upgrade page.
