Mastering EKS Monitoring: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Monitoring on AWS

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) has become a leading choice for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in the cloud. While EKS abstracts much of the complexity of managing Kubernetes itself, monitoring your applications and infrastructure is crucial, especially for enterprise environments where high availability, performance, and security are paramount.

In this guide, we’ll dive deep into the essential tools and best practices for monitoring enterprise-grade applications running on EKS. Whether you’re using AWS’s native CloudWatch service or external tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentd, this guide will help you choose the best monitoring stack for your enterprise needs.

Why Monitoring is Critical for Enterprise EKS

Monitoring EKS clusters is about much more than just tracking CPU and memory usage. In an enterprise environment, monitoring plays several crucial roles:

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Real-time insights into the health and performance of your applications.
• Infrastructure Monitoring: Ensure the underlying AWS infrastructure, such as EC2, VPC, and RDS, is performing optimally.
• Autoscaling: Dynamically scale…