Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)

Amazon CloudWatch introduces Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics for Amazon EKS, available in public preview. Building on the existing Container Insights experience, this capability provides deeper visibility into EKS clusters by collecting more metrics from widely adopted open source and AWS collectors and sending them to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Each metric is automatically enriched with up to 150 descriptive labels, including Kubernetes metadata and customer-defined labels such as team, application, or business unit.

Curated dashboards in the Container Insights console present cluster, node, and pod health with the ability to aggregate and filter metrics by instance type, availability zone, node group, or any custom label. For deeper analysis, customers can write queries using the Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) in CloudWatch Query Studio. The CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on provides one-click installation through the Amazon EKS console, or can be deployed through CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform. The add-on automatically detects accelerated compute hardware including NVIDIA GPUs, Elastic Fabric Adapters, and AWS Trainium and Inferentia accelerators. For existing customers of the add-on, CloudWatch supports publishing both OpenTelemetry and existing Container Insights metrics at the same time.

Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics is available in public preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Ireland). There is no charge for OpenTelemetry metrics from Container Insights during preview. To get started, see the Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics for Amazon EKS.