Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS
Amazon CloudWatch now offers OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS, collecting infrastructure metrics at 30-second intervals using open-source receivers like cAdvisor and Kube State Metrics, enabling cross-node and pod correlation via PromQL.
Amazon CloudWatch now offers OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS. This feature collects infrastructure metrics at 30-second intervals using open-source receivers such as cAdvisor, Kube State Metrics, and NVIDIA DCGM. Each metric carries OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and Kubernetes labels, making it straightforward to correlate across nodes, pods, and workloads in a single PromQL query. Pre-built dashboards provide immediate visibility into cluster health, node performance, and pod-level resource usage. The CloudWatch PromQL endpoint allows you to connect existing Prometheus and Grafana dashboards directly to CloudWatch. You can enable it from the EKS console or via the CloudWatch Observability add-on (v6.2.0+), Helm, or CloudFormation. Available in all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv). For pricing details, see the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page. To get started, see the OTel Container Insights documentation.