Syllaro Academy

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

Container Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana

Getting container-level telemetry out of ECS and EKS: how Container Insights collects performance log events, what enhanced observability adds, and when to send metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and visualize them in Amazon Managed Grafana instead.

Intermediate 20 minutes 6 Learning Objectives
  1. Explain why EC2 instance metrics cannot answer questions about individual containers
  2. Describe how Container Insights turns performance log events into CloudWatch metrics
  3. Enable Container Insights on ECS at the account and cluster level, and on EKS with the observability add-on
  4. Compare standard Container Insights with Container Insights with enhanced observability
  5. Explain the role of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and where remote write fits
  6. Choose between Container Insights and a Prometheus and Grafana stack for a given requirement