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Monitor cluster data with Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch Observability collects real-time logs, metrics, and trace data. It sends them to Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. You can install this add-on to enable both CloudWatch Application Signals and CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS. This helps you monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure and containerized applications. The Amazon CloudWatch Observability Operator is designed to install and configure the necessary components.
Amazon EKS supports Amazon CloudWatch Observability Operator as an Amazon EKS add-on.
The add-on allows
Container Insights on both Linux and
Windows worker nodes in the cluster. To enable Container
Insights on Windows, the Amazon EKS add-on version must be
1.5.0 or higher. Currently, CloudWatch Application Signals isn't supported on
Amazon EKS Windows.
The topics below describe how to get started using Amazon CloudWatch Observability Operator for your Amazon EKS cluster.
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For instructions on installing this add-on, see Install the CloudWatch agent by using the CloudWatch Observability Amazon EKS add-ons in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
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For more information about CloudWatch Application Signals, see Application Signals.
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For more information about Container Insights, see Using Container Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
