Containers
Author: Shane Carragher
Shane is a Snr. Cloud Support Engineer and CloudWatch SME based in Dublin. He loves to develop his knowledge in all thing Monitoring and Observability and helping customers strengthen their Observability posture in the Cloud. In his spare time, Shane loves getting outdoors, going to the Gym and watching re-runs of The Sopranos.
Implement centralized observability for multi-account Amazon EKS
This post shows you how to unify your existing Container Insights and CloudWatch data into a centralized monitoring hub using a hub-and-spoke architecture. You will unify fragmented observability data into a single pane of glass that maintains security boundaries while removing the need for account switching. The solution requires no changes to your existing monitoring infrastructure. It connects what you already have. You will reduce incident response time by removing context switching between accounts and Regions. From one console, you will identify clusters experiencing elevated error rates, spot pod CPU and memory spikes, and track which clusters require version upgrades organization wide. This visibility helps you add capacity before issues occur.