Helm Chart for CloudWatch Container Insights

CloudwatchContainerInsights is provides you with a single pane to view the performance of your Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and the Kubernetes platform running on an EC2 cluster. This tool collects, summarizes, and aggregates logs and metrics from your microservices and containerized applications.

CloudWatch collects metrics like memory, CPU, disk space, and network statistics, while Container Insights offers diagnostics, such as container restart failures. With the combination of both, you can even set CloudWatch alarms on the metrics collected by Container Insights.

Installing the Container Insight's Chart

Prerequisite

An EKS cluster
IAM Policy "CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy" attached to EC2 instance

Default values:

Since CloudWatch Container Insights required some input parameters like namespace, cluster name, region, you must deploy the helm chart with your values. Otherwise below values will be used as default.

namespace: amazon-cloudwatch

clusterName: devshared

regionName: eu-west-2

Installing steps

Installing using helm manifest files

git clone https://github.com/innomizetech/eks-container-insights.git
git checkout master
- With default values: 
    helm install [release-name] eks-container-insights/        
- Installing with override values: 
    helm install [release-name] eks-container-insights/  --set regionName="your-region" --set namespace="your-namespace" --set clusterName="your-cluster"

Installing using helm publish chart

helm repo add eks-container-insights https://innomizetech.github.io/eks-container-insights
helm repos list
    NAME                    URL
    eks-container-insights  https://innomizetech.github.io/eks-container-insights
helm repo update
helm install amazon-cloudwatch eks-container-insights/amazon-cloudwatch  --set regionName="your-region" --set namespace="amazon-cloudwatch" --set clusterName="your-cluster" 

Expected Output

Cloudwatch Agent and Fluentd pods running.

$ kubectl get all -n amazon-cloudwatch
NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/cloudwatch-agent-2fq46     1/1     Running   0          79m
pod/fluentd-cloudwatch-4c4dq   1/1     Running   0          79m

NAME                                DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   NODE SELECTOR   AGE
daemonset.apps/cloudwatch-agent     1         1         1       1            1           <none>          79m
daemonset.apps/fluentd-cloudwatch   1         1         1       1            1           <none>          79m

Amazon CloudWatch -> Log groups. Expected to have following logs:

/aws/containerinsights/your-cluster/application
/aws/containerinsights/your-cluster/dataplane
/aws/containerinsights/your-cluster/host
/aws/containerinsights/your-cluster/performance