What is AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service?

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service provided by Amazon Web Services that makes it easy to run and scale containerized applications. It automates tasks like cluster provisioning, upgrades, and patching, while integrating with other AWS services for security, networking, and storage. EKS runs Kubernetes control plane components across multiple AWS Availability Zones for high availability. It supports both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate to run workloads. Users can deploy, manage, and scale applications using standard Kubernetes tools. EKS also provides built-in security features such as IAM integration and encryption. This service helps organizations focus on application development instead of managing Kubernetes infrastructure.

eG Enterprise delivers a complete full-stack end-to-end observability solution for Amazon EKS environments and applications. AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) technologies automate deployment, monitoring, root cause diagnostics and remediation, even in complex dynamic auto-scaling deployments. The features include:

  • Understand resource usage and capacity needs to future-proof container provisioning

  • Obtain code-level visibility of applications running inside the containers

  • Get correlated insight to identify root cause of performance bottlenecks

  • Automate monitoring in your auto-scaling Kubernetes environment

  • Track resource provisioning, availability/usage to support container creation, and User-Defined Transaction Profiling

  • Digital and user experience observability for Amazon EKS combined with business analytics ensure users understand the impact of configurations

  • Flexible deployment and licensing options for Amazon EKS observability

Without having to install any agent/probe on the Kubernetes nodes, eG Enterprise leverages native APIs to agentlessly monitor the entire Kube cluster.

 

Key Challenges in Amazon EKS Monitoring:

• Limited Visibility into Cluster Health: Native tools often focus on Kubernetes-specific metrics but lack deep insights into the infrastructure, applications, and services running on EKS

• Performance Bottlenecks: Diagnosing issues across Kubernetes nodes, pods, containers, and the underlying AWS services (EC2, EBS, etc.) can be time-consuming and complex

• Dynamic and Ephemeral Nature of Kubernetes: Containers frequently spin up or terminate, making it hard to track resource usage and performance over time

• Cross-Dependency Analysis: EKS interacts with several AWS services, and identifying inter-service dependencies can be difficult without a unified view

• High Learning Curve: Native tooling requires AWS and Kubernetes knowledge and lacks automated root-cause diagnostics. It can be challenging to find staff skilled to troubleshoot

 

Key Capabilities of eG Enterprise for Amazon EKS:

eG Enterprise provides end-to-end visibility into Amazon EKS clusters, applications, and infrastructure to ensure smooth performance and faster troubleshooting.

• Auto-Discovery and Real-Time Monitoring: Automatically discover Kubernetes clusters, nodes, pods, containers, and associated workloads. Monitor the health, resource usage, and performance of all EKS components in real time.

• Unified Visibility: View metrics, logs and traces for EKS, associated AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, EBS), and application layers in a single console. Analyze cross-layer dependencies for faster root cause analysis. Out-of-the-box rich visualizations including dashboards, geo and topology maps.

• Proactive Alerting and Anomaly Detection: Alert thresholds configured ready-to-go plus dynamic auto-baselining – no need to manually configure alerts. Get proactive alerts for potential issues with nodes, pods, container restarts, and resource exhaustion. Leverage AIOps-based anomaly detection and automated root-cause diagnostics.

• Resource Optimization and Capacity Planning: Identify over- or under-utilized resources at the node, pod, or container level. Optimize infrastructure costs by right-sizing your Kubernetes environments.

• End-to-End Application Performance Management: Monitor business-critical applications running on EKS, including Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js and microservices-based architectures. Trace transactions end-to-end to identify application bottlenecks across Kubernetes and AWS services.

• Compliance and Reporting: A wealth of out-of-the box reports plus a GUI custom report builder (no query languages needed) provide detailed performance reports for audits, SLAs, and capacity planning. Full audit trails plus configuration and change tracking.