AWS lately created a brand new template inside the AWS Observability Accelerator venture that gives an built-in telemetry resolution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.
The AWS Observability Accelerator started as a collection of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) examples for patrons to make use of as beginning factors for monitoring particular software varieties deployed on EKS. The venture configures EKS workloads with AWS managed cases or distributions of tried and examined elements of the trendy observability stack: Prometheus, for scraping and storing time-series metrics; Grafana, for querying, visualisations and evaluation; and OpenTelemetry, for producing, amassing and exporting telemetry knowledge.
The newly launched template offers a one-click resolution that features Prometheus and Grafana workspaces, OpenTelemetry collectors and IAM roles deployed within the structure proven under:
Supply: https://github.com/aws-observability/terraform-aws-observability-accelerator#readme
It additionally contains configured alerts and recording guidelines, leading to a dashboard like this:
Whereas preconfigured dashboards and alerts are a helpful begin for monitoring, observability of purposes in environments as dynamic and sophisticated as Kubernetes workloads require interrogatability. Jay Livens of Dynatrace writes in an exposition on observability:
In an observability state of affairs. . . you possibly can flexibly discover what’s occurring and rapidly work out the foundation reason behind points you might not have been capable of anticipate.
The usage of Grafana and its native integration with Prometheus for querying knowledge gathered uncovered through OpenTelemetry permits customers of the AWS Observability accelerator to analyze unanticipated behaviours on their EKS workloads.
An usually proposed different to elements of the AWS Observability Accelerator could be Datadog. By deploying Datadog Brokers in an EKS cluster and enabling its AWS integrations, it offers a unified platform for logs, traces and metrics which make up the three pillars of an observability resolution.
Based on a 2022 Gartner report on the Magic Quadrant of Software Efficiency Monitoring and Observability, DataDog sits as a frontrunner within the subject of Observability alongside Dynatrace. The Dynatrace providing additionally utilises the same method of an agent and integrations for routing the observability knowledge to its Saas platform.
The AWS Observability Accelerator is maintained as an open-source venture on GitHub by AWS Options Architects and the group.
