Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, now offers customers the option to collect metrics from an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in a dual stack VPC setup.
The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can now use the managed service to collect IPv6 Prometheus metrics endpoints in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters.
To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the white paper on IPv6 in AWS
. Support for IPv6 on Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector is available in all regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is GA. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, visit the user guide
or product page
.