Container Insights Prometheus metrics monitoring
CloudWatch Container Insights monitoring for Prometheus automates the discovery of Prometheus
metrics from containerized systems and workloads. Prometheus is an open-source systems
monitoring and alerting toolkit. For more information, see What is Prometheus?
Discovering Prometheus metrics is supported for Amazon Elastic Container Service
For Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS clusters, both the EC2 and Fargate launch types are supported. Container Insights automatically collects metrics from several workloads, and you can configure it to collect metrics from any workload.
You can adopt Prometheus as an open-source and open-standard method to ingest custom metrics in CloudWatch. The CloudWatch agent with Prometheus support discovers and collects Prometheus metrics to monitor, troubleshoot, and alarm on application performance degradation and failures faster. This also reduces the number of monitoring tools required to improve observability.
Container Insights Prometheus support involves pay-per-use of metrics and logs, including
collecting, storing, and analyzing. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing
Pre-built dashboards for some workloads
The Container Insights Prometheus solution includes pre-built dashboards for the popular workloads that are listed in this section. For sample configurations for these workloads, see (Optional) Set up sample containerized Amazon ECS workloads for Prometheus metric testing and (Optional) Set up sample containerized Amazon EKS workloads for Prometheus metric testing.
You can also configure Container Insights to collect Prometheus metrics from other containerized services and applications by editing the agent configuration file.
Workloads with pre-built dashboards for Amazon EKS clusters and Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EC2 instances:
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AWS App Mesh
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NGINX
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Memcached
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Java/JMX
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HAProxy
Workloads with pre-built dashboards for Amazon ECS clusters:
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AWS App Mesh
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Java/JMX
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NGINX
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NGINX Plus
