Setting up Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes - Amazon CloudWatch

Setting up Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

Container Insights is supported on Amazon EKS versions 1.23 and later. The quick start method of installation is supported only on versions 1.24 and later.

The overall process for setting up Container Insights on Amazon EKS or Kubernetes is as follows:

  1. Verify that you have the necessary prerequisites.

  2. Set up the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on, the CloudWatch agent, or AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry on your cluster to send metrics to CloudWatch.

    Note

    To use Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS, you must use the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on or the CloudWatch agent. For more information about this version of Container Insights, see Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS.

    To use Container Insights with Fargate, you must use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS is not supported on Fargate.

    Note

    Container Insights now supports Windows worker nodes in an Amazon EKS cluster. Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS is also supported on Windows. For information about enabling Container Insights on Windows, see Using the CloudWatch agent with Container Insights enhanced observability enabled.

    Set up Fluent Bit or Fluentd to send logs to CloudWatch Logs. (This is enabled by default if you install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on.)

    You can perform these steps at once as part of the quick start setup if you are using the CloudWatch agent, or do them separately.

  3. (Optional) Set up Amazon EKS control plane logging.

  4. (Optional) Set up the CloudWatch agent as a StatsD endpoint on the cluster to send StatsD metrics to CloudWatch.

  5. (Optional) Enable App Mesh Envoy Access Logs.

With the original version of Container Insights, metrics collected and logs ingested are charged as custom metrics. With Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS, Container Insights metrics and logs are charged per observation instead of being charged per metric stored or log ingested. For more information about CloudWatch pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.

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