Key metrics for Amazon EKS monitoring

Monitoring Amazon EKS involves tracking a variety of metrics related to the performance and health of your Kubernetes cluster as well as the underlying AWS services that provide its infrastructure. In this guide we will cover key resource usage metrics for monitoring an EKS cluster, including CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk space usage, network throughput, and events. We will also discuss how these metrics can help you identify potential issues with your cluster or its applications and inform decisions about scaling up or down your infrastructure. In the next part of this series we will dive into how to collect these metrics using common Kubernetes monitoring tools as well as CloudWatch to gather AWS service metrics. Reference: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-amazon-eks/