Observability on EKS

Overview

EKS integrates with AWS native (CloudWatch) and open source (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) observability solutions.

Topics

Logging

• Control Plane Logs - API server, audit, authenticator logs
• Pod Logging - Application log aggregation

Metrics

• CloudWatch Container Insights
• Prometheus - Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
• ADOT - AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Cost

• Kubecost - Cost visibility and optimization

Analytics

• OpenSearch - Log analysis

Architecture Options

AWS Native

EKS --> CloudWatch Logs --> CloudWatch Container Insights
                     --> CloudWatch Metrics

Open Source Managed

EKS --> AMP (Prometheus) --> AMG (Grafana)
   --> ADOT --> AMP/CloudWatch

References

• EKS Observability
• EKS Workshop - Observability

Across the wiki

• AKS Observability — Container Insights, Managed Prometheus, and ContainerLogV2 — cluster observability (Azure)
• GKE Observability Architecture — Managed Prometheus (GMP), Logging, and Trace — cluster observability (GCP)
• Prometheus Architecture — cluster observability (Observability)
• Observability Architecture & Implementation Guide — cluster observability (Observability)