Introduction to CloudWatch Container Insights

Talking to customers and practitioners, we see a common set of requirements for any observability solution:

• Understand distributed architecture: Bird’s eye view of the application to locate the source of the problem
• Zoom into individual components: Drill down into specific components or workloads to learn more
• Derive insights from data collected: Connect the dots across metrics and logs collected

Launched in 2019, the AWS observability team specially tailored CloudWatch Container Insights to containers on AWS or any other system that runs containers.

CloudWatch Container Insights mainly performs the following functions:

• Collects and aggregates metrics and logs
• Provides reliable, secure metrics and log collections
• Enables automated dashboard creation and analysis
• Provides observability experience across metrics, logs, and traces
• Provides ad hoc analysis

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