Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with OpenTelemetry Metrics for Amazon EKS

Amazon CloudWatch introduces Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics for Amazon EKS, available in public preview. This feature provides deeper visibility into EKS clusters by collecting more metrics from open source and AWS collectors and sending them to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Metrics are enriched with up to 150 descriptive labels, including Kubernetes metadata and custom labels.

Curated dashboards in the Container Insights console present cluster, node, and pod health, with the ability to aggregate and filter metrics by various attributes. Customers can write queries using the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) in CloudWatch Query Studio for deeper analysis. The CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on provides one-click installation through the Amazon EKS console or can be deployed through CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform. It automatically detects accelerated compute hardware including GPUs and AWS Trainium and Inferentia accelerators.

For existing customers, CloudWatch supports publishing both OpenTelemetry and existing Container Insights metrics simultaneously. This feature is available in public preview in multiple regions with no charge during the preview period.

What to do

• Install the CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on through the Amazon EKS console, CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
• Explore curated dashboards in the Container Insights console.
• Write queries using PromQL in CloudWatch Query Studio for deeper analysis.

Source: AWS release notes

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