CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS collects infrastructure metrics at 30-second granularity using open-source receivers including cAdvisor, Kube State Metrics, and NVIDIA DCGM. Each metric carries OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and Kubernetes labels, making it straightforward to correlate across nodes, pods, and workloads in a single PromQL query.
Pre-built dashboards give you immediate visibility into cluster health, node performance, and pod-level resource usage. The CloudWatch PromQL endpoint lets you connect existing Prometheus and Grafana dashboards directly to CloudWatch.
Enable it from the EKS console or via the CloudWatch Observability add-on (v6.2.0+), Helm, or CloudFormation.
Available in all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv). For pricing details, see the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page . To get started, see the OTel Container Insights documentation .