Stories Tag: cloudwatch

Sending container logs from AWS EKS to AWS CloudWatch using Fluentd | by Vinod Kumar Nair | CodeX | Aug,...

admin 2 months ago in

Centralized logging is one of the key aspects of today’s modern cloud-native architectures. We do not want our main microservices besides performing the business logic to do the heavy-lifting task of writing logs to a centralized location as well say, AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, or any third-party HTTPS endpoints. As the best practices, these heavy-lifting tasks such as retry, logging, security (mTLS), etc should be decoupled…

CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon EKS Clusters | by Emin ALEMDAR | Jun, 2021 | Medium

admin 4 months ago in

Monitoring performance metrics is always a challenge for containerized applications and microservices. When using Amazon EKS, you can use CloudWatch Container Insights for collecting, aggregating, and summarizing metrics and logs from your Kubernetes clusters. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service that monitors your AWS resources and applications in real-time. You can create custom dashboards to display custom metrics that you define. Also, you can create…

Setting up Grafana CloudWatch datasource with role ARN in Kubernetes and terraform | by Internet of Things | Feb, 2021...

admin 8 months ago in

There are many tutorials which can walk you through the process of attaching the policy to grafana instance, let me give an example of attaching the aws iam role to grafana micro-service. The simplest solution is to use AWS IAM Role ARN and Policy structure to allow access to AWS CloudWatch metrics from Grafana. [Requirements] All you need is – uswitch/kiam Background — A microservice…

Prometheus Metrics and AWS CloudWatch | by Sudhindra Tirupati Nagaraj | Jul, 2020 | Medium

admin 1 year ago in

Prometheus is a popular monitoring platform, especially in the world of Kubernetes, with a pretty mature developer ecosystem. It has API support in a lot of programming languages (https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs) that enables applications to instrument code in Prometheus language. A common architecture is for applications to expose a “scraping” HTTP endpoint to Prometheus, which can then scrape at a configured time interval all the metrics that…