Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring AWS EKS and Local Kubernetes Clusters with Prometheus and Grafana

Optimize Performance and Visibility Across AWS EKS and Local Kubernetes Clusters Using Prometheus and Grafana

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In today’s cloud-native ecosystem, Kubernetes is the leading platform for container orchestration. Whether you are running Kubernetes on AWS EKS or a local setup, monitoring your clusters effectively is essential for ensuring the reliability, performance, and health of your applications. Prometheus and Grafana are two of the most widely used open-source tools for this purpose, offering robust capabilities for metrics collection, alerting, and visualization.

This guide will walk you through setting up a world-class monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana on both AWS EKS and a local Kubernetes environment. By following this guide, you’ll be able to monitor your Kubernetes clusters comprehensively, whether they’re running in the cloud or on-premises.

Why Monitoring Kubernetes Matters

Kubernetes abstracts the complexities of deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications, but this abstraction also introduces…