Amazon CloudWatch Observability agent

The Amazon CloudWatch Observability agent Amazon EKS add-on the monitoring and observability service provided by AWS. This add-on installs the CloudWatch Agent and enables both CloudWatch Application Signals and CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Agent.

The Amazon EKS add-on name is amazon-cloudwatch-observability.

Required IAM permissions

This add-on uses the IAM roles for service accounts capability of Amazon EKS. The permissions in the AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess and CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy AWS managed policies are required. You can create an IAM role, attach the managed policies to it, and annotate the Kubernetes service account used by the add-on with the following command. Replace my-cluster with the name of your cluster and AmazonEKS_Observability_role with the name for your role. This command requires that you have eksctl installed on your device. If you need to use a different tool to create the role, attach the policy to it, and annotate the Kubernetes service account, see Assign IAM roles to Kubernetes service accounts.

eksctl create iamserviceaccount \
    --name cloudwatch-agent \
    --namespace amazon-cloudwatch \
    --cluster my-cluster \
    --role-name AmazonEKS_Observability_Role \
    --role-only \
    --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess \
    --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy \
    --approve

Additional information

For more information, see Install the CloudWatch agent.