Amazon EKS and Kubernetes Container Insights metrics

The following table lists the metrics and dimensions that Container Insights collects for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. These metrics are in the ContainerInsights namespace. For more information, see Metrics.

If you do not see any Container Insights metrics in your console, be sure that you have completed the setup of Container Insights. Metrics do not appear before Container Insights has been set up completely. For more information, see Setting up Container Insights.

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

Metric name	Dimensions with any version of Container Insights	Additional dimensions with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS	Description
cluster_failed_node_count	ClusterName		The number of failed worker nodes in the cluster. A node is considered failed if it is suffering from any node conditions. For more information, see Conditions in the Kubernetes documentation.
cluster_node_count	ClusterName		The total number of worker nodes in the cluster.
namespace_number_of_running_pods	Namespace ClusterName ClusterName		The number of pods running per namespace in the resource that is specified by the dimensions that you're using.
node_cpu_limit	ClusterName	ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The maximum number of CPU units that can be assigned to a single node in this cluster.
node_cpu_reserved_capacity	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The percentage of CPU units that are reserved for node components, such as kubelet, kube-proxy, and Docker. Formula: node_cpu_request / node_cpu_limit Note node_cpu_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
node_cpu_usage_total	ClusterName	ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of CPU units being used on the nodes in the cluster.
node_cpu_utilization	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The total percentage of CPU units being used on the nodes in the cluster. Formula: node_cpu_usage_total / node_cpu_limit
node_filesystem_utilization	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The total percentage of file system capacity being used on nodes in the cluster. Formula: node_filesystem_usage / node_filesystem_capacity Note node_filesystem_usage and node_filesystem_capacity are not reported directly as metrics, but are fields in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
node_memory_limit	ClusterName	ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The maximum amount of memory, in bytes, that can be assigned to a single node in this cluster.
node_filesystem_inodes This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The total number of inodes (used and unused) on a node.
node_filesystem_inodes_free This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of unused inodes on a node.
node_memory_reserved_capacity	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The percentage of memory currently being used on the nodes in the cluster. Formula: node_memory_request / node_memory_limit Note node_memory_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
node_memory_utilization	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The percentage of memory currently being used by the node or nodes. It is the percentage of node memory usage divided by the node memory limitation. Formula: node_memory_working_set / node_memory_limit.
node_memory_working_set	ClusterName	ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The amount of memory, in bytes, being used in the working set of the nodes in the cluster.
node_network_total_bytes	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The total number of bytes per second transmitted and received over the network per node in a cluster. Formula: node_network_rx_bytes + node_network_tx_bytes Note node_network_rx_bytes and node_network_tx_bytes are not reported directly as metrics, but are fields in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
node_number_of_running_containers	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The number of running containers per node in a cluster.
node_number_of_running_pods	NodeName, ClusterName, InstanceId ClusterName		The number of running pods per node in a cluster.
node_status_allocatable_pods This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of pods that can be assigned to a node based on its allocatable resources, which is defined as the remainder of a node's capacity after accounting for system daemons reservations and hard eviction thresholds.
node_status_capacity_pods This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of pods that can be assigned to a node based on its capacity.
node_status_condition_ready This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	Indicates whether the node status condition Ready is true.
node_status_condition_memory_pressure This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	Indicates whether the node status condition MemoryPressure is true.
node_status_condition_pid_pressure This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	Indicates whether the node status condition PIDPressure is true.
node_status_condition_disk_pressure This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	Indicates whether the node status condition OutOfDisk is true.
node_status_condition_unknown This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	Indicates whether any of the node status conditions are Unknown.
node_interface_network_rx_dropped This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of packets which were received and subsequently dropped by a network interface on the node.
node_interface_network_tx_dropped This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The number of packets which were due to be transmitted but were dropped by a network interface on the node.
node_diskio_io_service_bytes_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The total number of bytes transferred by all I/O operations on the node.
node_diskio_io_serviced_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, InstanceId, NodeName	The total number of I/O operations on the node.
pod_cpu_reserved_capacity	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName ClusterName, Namespace, Service	The CPU capacity that is reserved per pod in a cluster. Formula: pod_cpu_request / node_cpu_limit Note pod_cpu_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_cpu_utilization	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The percentage of CPU units being used by pods. Formula: pod_cpu_usage_total / node_cpu_limit Note pod_cpu_usage_total is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_cpu_utilization_over_pod_limit	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The percentage of CPU units being used by pods relative to the pod limit. Formula: pod_cpu_usage_total / pod_cpu_limit Note pod_cpu_usage_total and pod_cpu_limit are not reported directly as metrics, but are fields in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_memory_reserved_capacity	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName ClusterName, Namespace, Service	The percentage of memory that is reserved for pods. Formula: pod_memory_request / node_memory_limit Note pod_memory_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_memory_utilization	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The percentage of memory currently being used by the pod or pods. Formula: pod_memory_working_set / node_memory_limit Note pod_memory_working_set is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_memory_utilization_over_pod_limit	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The percentage of memory that is being used by pods relative to the pod limit. If any containers in the pod don't have a memory limit defined, this metric doesn't appear. Formula: pod_memory_working_set / pod_memory_limit Note pod_memory_working_set is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_network_rx_bytes	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The number of bytes per second being received over the network by the pod. Formula: sum(pod_interface_network_rx_bytes) Note pod_interface_network_rx_bytes is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_network_tx_bytes	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName	ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The number of bytes per second being transmitted over the network by the pod. Formula: sum(pod_interface_network_tx_bytes) Note pod_interface_network_tx_bytes is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_cpu_request This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The CPU requests for the pod. Formula: sum(container_cpu_request) Note pod_cpu_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_memory_request This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The memory requests for the pod. Formula: sum(container_memory_request) Note pod_memory_request is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_cpu_limit This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The CPU limit defined for the containers in the pod. If any containers in the pod don't have a CPU limit defined, this metric doesn't appear. Formula: sum(container_cpu_limit) Note pod_cpu_limit is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_memory_limit This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The memory limit defined for the containers in the pod. If any containers in the pod don't have a memory limit defined, this metric doesn't appear. Formula: sum(container_memory_limit) Note pod_cpu_limit is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_status_failed This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that all containers in the pod have terminated, and at least one container has terminated with a non-zero status or was terminated by the system.
pod_status_ready This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that all containers in the pod are ready, having reached the condition of ContainerReady.
pod_status_running This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that all containers in the pod are running.
pod_status_scheduled This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that the pod has been scheduled to a node.
pod_status_unknown This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that status of the pod can't be obtained.
pod_status_pending This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that the pod has been accepted by the cluster but one or more of the containers has not become ready yet.
pod_status_succeeded This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Indicates that all containers in the pod have successfully terminated and will not be restarted.
pod_number_of_containers This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Reports the number of containers defined in the pod specification.
pod_number_of_running_containers This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Reports the number of containers in the pod which are currently in the Running state.
pod_container_status_terminated This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Reports the number of containers in the pod which are in the Terminated state.
pod_container_status_running This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Reports the number of containers in the pod which are in the Running state.
pod_container_status_waiting This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	Reports the number of containers in the pod which are in the Waiting state.
pod_interface_network_rx_dropped This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The number of packets which were received and subsequently dropped a network interface for the pod.
pod_interface_network_tx_dropped This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName Namespace, ClusterName, Service ClusterName, Namespace, PodName, FullPodName	The number of packets which were due to be transmitted but were dropped for the pod.
container_cpu_utilization This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The percentage of CPU units being used by the container. Formula: container_cpu_usage_total / node_cpu_limit Note container_cpu_utilization is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
container_cpu_utilization_over_container_limit This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The percentage of CPU units being used by the container relative to the container limit. If the container doesn't have a CPU limit defined, this metric doesn't appear. Formula: container_cpu_usage_total / container_cpu_limit Note container_cpu_utilization_over_container_limit is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
container_memory_utilization This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The percentage of memory units being used by the container. Formula: container_memory_working_set / node_memory_limit Note container_memory_utilization is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
container_memory_utilization_over_container_limit This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The percentage of memory units being used by the container relative to the container limit. If the container doesn't have a memory limit defined, this metric doesn't appear. Formula: container_memory_working_set / container_memory_limit Note container_memory_utilization_over_container_limit is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
container_memory_failures_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The number of memory allocation failures experienced by the container.
container_filesystem_usage This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The number of bytes consumed by the container on this filesystem.
container_filesystem_available This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The number of bytes available for the container on this filesystem.
container_filesystem_utilization This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName, ContainerName, FullPodName	The percentage of the filesystem which is being consumed by the container. Formula: container_memory_working_set / container_memory_limit Note container_filesystem_usage / container_filesystem_capacity is not reported directly as a metric, but is a field in performance log events. For more information, see Relevant fields in performance log events for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
pod_number_of_container_restarts	PodName, Namespace, ClusterName		The total number of container restarts in a pod.
service_number_of_running_pods	Service, Namespace, ClusterName ClusterName		The number of pods running the service or services in the cluster.
replicas_desired This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName	The number of pods desired for a workload as defined in the workload specification.
replicas_ready This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName	The number of pods for a workload that have reached the ready status.
replicas_available This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName	The number of pods for a workload which are available. A pod is available when it has been ready for the minReadySeconds defined in the workload specification.
replicas_unavailable This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName PodName, Namespace, ClusterName	The number of pods for a workload which are unavailable. A pod is available when it has been ready for the minReadySeconds defined in the workload specification. Pods are unavailable if they have not met this criterion.
apiserver_storage_objects This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, resource	The number of objects stored in etcd at the time of the last check.
apiserver_request_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, code, verb	The total number of API requests to the Kubernetes API server.
apiserver_request_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, verb	Responce latency for API requests to the Kubernetes API server.
apiserver_admission_controller_admission_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, operation	Admission controller latency in seconds. An admission controller is code which intercepts requests to the Kubernetes API server.
rest_client_request_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, operation	Reponse latency experienced by clients calling the Kubernetes API server. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
rest_client_requests_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, code, method	The total number of API requests to the Kubernetes API server made by clients. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
etcd_request_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, operation	Response latency of API calls to Etcd. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
apiserver_storage_size_bytes This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, endpoint	Size of the storage database file physically allocated in bytes. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
apiserver_longrunning_requests This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, resource	The number of active long-running requests to the Kubernetes API server.
apiserver_current_inflight_requests This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, request_kind	The number of requests that are being processed by Kubernetes API server.
apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, name	Admission webhook latency in seconds. Admission webhooks are HTTP callbacks that receive admission requests and do something with them.
apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, operation	Admission sub-step latency in seconds.
apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, group	Number of requests to deprecated APIs on the Kubernetes API server.
apiserver_request_total_5XX This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, code, verb	Number of requests to the Kubernetes API server which were responded to with a 5XX HTTP response code.
apiserver_storage_list_duration_seconds This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, resource	Response latency of listing objects from Etcd. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
apiserver_current_inqueue_requests This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, request_kind	The number queued requests queued by the Kubernetes API server. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.
apiserver_flowcontrol_rejected_requests_total This metric is available only with Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS		ClusterName ClusterName, reason	Number of requests rejected by API Priority and Fairness subsystem. This metric is experimental and may change in future releases of Kubernetes.