In this session, we dive into how Amazon CloudWatch gives visibility into your cloud resources and applications. We also give you a demo of CloudWatch Container Insights, a fully managed observability service for monitoring, troubleshooting, and alarming on you containerized applications and microservices.

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Amazon CloudWatch
Container Monitoring & Troubleshooting

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kubectl describe pod marc-p4tb4 -n amazon
Name: Marc Chéné
Labels: email=machene@amazon.com
Title=Principal Product Manager
Service=Amazon CloudWatch
Hobbies=Mountain Biking, Skiing
Nationality=Canadian
Status: Running… but tired!
Controlled By: my wife!

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Amazon CloudWatch
Gives you complete visibility into your cloud resources and applications so you
can monitor, troubleshoot and remediate issues.

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“Amazon CloudWatch monitors more than 1
quadrillion metric observations, triggers more
than 3.9 trillion events, and ingests more than
100 petabytes of logs per month.” as of October 2018
Amazon CloudWatch

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If you’re not closely monitoring your
containers….

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Containerization: New opportunities and challenges
1. Flexibility & Scale comes with high cardinality data and ephemeral
workloads.
2. Breaking the Monolith allows forever changing environments and
endless opportunity to right size work loads.
3. Business SLAs - Issue detection across microservices can be a
challenging task.
4. Health & Performance Monitoring - Making it difficult to keep track
of the overall health & performance.

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Top Product Features Requests (PFRs)
Containers - EKS
1. Integrated K8s Cluster State & Mgmt options in the AWS Console
2. Cluster metrics in CloudWatch
3. Kubernetes dashboard as a Service
4. Monitoring - pod metrics to CloudWatch
5. Container Logs published to CloudWatch Logs Group
6. Monitoring solution for EKS, Master, Nodes, Pod state
7. Container Logs published to CloudWatch Logs Group

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Public Preview Announcement of…
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

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 Collects, aggregates, and summarizes
 Reliable, secure metrics and logs collection
 Automated dashboards and analysis
 Observability experience across metrics, logs, traces
 Ad hoc analytics
CloudWatch Container Insights
A fully managed observability service for monitoring, troubleshooting and
alarming on your containerized applications and microservices.

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Container Insights Docker Images
- Available on Docker Hub
- Performance Metrics – CloudWatch Agent:
https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/cloudwatch-agent
- Tag: latest
- Logs – Fluentd: https://hub.docker.com/r/fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-
daemonset
- Tag: v1.3.3-debian-cloudwatch-1.4

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DEMO

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Key Takeaways
1. A fully managed, AWS native observability service providing
automated summary and analysis of compute capacity.
2. Reliable and secure collection of application logs with built in
analytics capabilities.
3. Prebuilt visualization to summarize cluster and node errors.
4. Application / Microservice Tracing - Troubleshoot and debug
application & microservice.

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Call to Action…
 Start Monitoring EKS and k8s with CloudWatch – Check out the CloudWatch
“Getting Started” page to get started
SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK @ containerinsightsbetafeedback@amazon.com
 Announcements - What’s New? and
Blog posts
 Are you an ECS or Fargate Customer?
Signup for our Beta Program!