Monitoring of EKS applications and services

We already mentioned earlier the different aspects of an EKS cluster. This time, we will be talking about how we activate and configure monitoring for the master node (also called the control plane), and then we will talk about how to collect logs for the pods that are deployed in the worker node. But first, let's talk about how to configure monitoring for the EKS control plane.

Monitoring the control plane

First, let's see how to enable monitoring on Amazon EKS. When an EKS cluster is set up, the monitoring features are usually not activated by default. We shall activate them on the EKS console when we have a control plane running. To do this, we go to the EKS console of the cluster that has been created.

To activate the different components of the control plane, we take the following steps:

1. Log in to the AWS management console and navigate to Amazon EKS on the services menu.
2. Click on the Clusters link on...