Amazon EKS — Observability
Chapter 12 — Observability
You can’t fix what you can’t see. Observability on EKS covers metrics (Prometheus/CloudWatch), logging (Fluent Bit/CloudWatch), tracing (X-Ray/OpenTelemetry), and dashboards (Grafana).
What You’ll Learn
- Container Insights with CloudWatch
- Prometheus + Grafana stack
- Centralized logging with Fluent Bit
- Distributed tracing with X-Ray / OpenTelemetry
- Alerting and on-call setup
Chapter Topics
| # | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CloudWatch Container Insights | AWS-native monitoring |
| 2 | Prometheus & Grafana | Open-source metrics stack |
| 3 | Logging with Fluent Bit | Centralized log collection |
| 4 | Distributed Tracing | X-Ray and OpenTelemetry |
| 5 | Alerting | CloudWatch Alarms, Prometheus alerts |
| 6 | Practice Exercises | 5 hands-on exercises |
Let’s start: Container Insights
