[EKS] Kubernetes metrics to CloudWatch

[jespereneberg]

Some metrics from eg: Kubernetes, Kubelet, kube-state-metrics to Cloudwatch. As of today, many are using Prometheus to collect the metrics. But if you already utilize Cloudwatch you now have two monitoring systems.

[mrichman]

Would it be fair to ask for metrics from the control plane as well?

[joan-s-molas]

fyi: In the meantime I've been using Prometheus along with https://github.com/cloudposse/prometheus-to-cloudwatch - however, it doesn't have any sort of whitelisting/filtering for metrics so it will essentially push everything to Cloudwatch - and it can only poll one metrics endpoint.

[ysaakpr]

Any update on this? Though EKS is there, no proper monitoring alerting possible still on aws

[khacminh]

@ysaakpr,

On May 20, 2019, AWS announced about: CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes (Preview). But the metrics are not really useful. I created a Request at #548

[mikestef9]

Closing as this now possible

see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-cloudwatch-prometheus-metrics-ga/

#548 will leave open track additional enhancements