Enable CloudWatch logging in EKS Kubernetes Cluster

To enable or disable control plane logs with the console Open the Amazon EKS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/eks/home#/clusters . Choose the name of the cluster to display your cluster information. Select the Configuration tab. Under Logging, choose Manage logging.

1. How do I send Kubernetes logs to CloudWatch?
2. How do I capture application logs when using Amazon EKS?
3. How can I check my Kubelet log in EKS?
4. How do I enable ec2 instance logging?
5. How do I install fluent on Kubernetes?
6. How do I check my EKS?
7. What is EKS cluster?
8. How do I get application logs from Kubernetes pod?
9. How do I access EKS cluster?
10. How do I enable EKS CloudWatch?
11. How can I find my Kubelet log?
12. How do I push logs into CloudWatch?
13. How do I push application logs to CloudWatch?
14. How do I know if CloudWatch is running?

How do I send Kubernetes logs to CloudWatch?

To send all nodes and container logs to CloudWatch, create a CloudWatch log group named kubernetes . Then install fluentd-cloudwatch helm chart. This will send logs from node, containers, etcd,… to CloudWatch as defined in the default fluentd chart config.

How do I capture application logs when using Amazon EKS?

Create an IAM OIDC identity provider for the cluster. Create an IAM role and a Kubernetes service account for Fluentd. This role permits Fluentd container to write log events to CloudWatch. You can review the service account created in the previous step.

How can I check my Kubelet log in EKS?

Alternatively running journalctl -u kubelet on the EKS node will show you the logs. You can also use /opt/cni/bin/aws-cni-support.sh CNI log collection tool which after run will gather the logs, generate tarball and store it /var/log .

How do I enable ec2 instance logging?

Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ .

1. In the navigation pane, choose Roles.
2. Choose the role by selecting the role name (do not select the check box next to the name).
3. Choose Attach Policies, Create Policy. ...
4. Choose the JSON tab and type the following JSON policy document.

How do I install fluent on Kubernetes?

See how to install kubectl here.

1. Step 1: Grant Permissions to Fluentd. Fluentd will be collecting logs both from user applications and cluster components such as kube-apiserver and kube-scheduler , so we need to grant it some permissions. ...
2. Step 2: Deploy a DaemonSet.

How do I check my EKS?

Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home#logs:prefix=/aws/eks . This URL displays your current available log groups and filters them with the /aws/eks prefix. Choose the cluster that you want to view logs for.

What is EKS cluster?

The Amazon EKS control plane consists of control plane nodes that run the Kubernetes software, such as etcd and the Kubernetes API server. ... Each Amazon EKS cluster control plane is single-tenant and unique, and runs on its own set of Amazon EC2 instances.

How do I get application logs from Kubernetes pod?

Fortunately, we have two ways of doing this, but ideally, the container would log to stdout and stderr.

1. Write files to the host at a path being watched by logging agent.
2. Streaming log file to stdout and stderr of a sidecar container.
3. Run the logging agent as sidecar container.

How do I access EKS cluster?

Short description. After you create your Amazon EKS cluster, you must then configure your kubeconfig file with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). This configuration allows you to connect to your cluster using the kubectl command line.

How do I enable EKS CloudWatch?

Setting Up Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

1. Verify that you have the necessary prerequisites.
2. Set up the CloudWatch agent as a DaemonSet on your Amazon EKS cluster or Kubernetes cluster to send metrics to CloudWatch, and set up FluentD as a DaemonSet to send logs to CloudWatch Logs. ...
3. (Optional) Set up Amazon EKS control plane logging.

How can I find my Kubelet log?

With this install, I find the logs using the logs command like this.

1. Find your container ID. $ docker ps | egrep kubelet.
2. Use that container ID to view the logs $ docker logs `<container-id>`

How do I push logs into CloudWatch?

Sending Linux logs to AWS Cloudwatch

1. Create IAM Role with relevant permission and attach to Linux instance.
2. Install the CloudWatch agent in the instance.
3. Prepare the configuration file in the instance.
4. Start the CloudWatch agent service in the instance.
5. Monitor the logs using CloudWatch web console.

How do I push application logs to CloudWatch?

Forward Application Logs To Cloudwatch

1. Create a custom ec2 IAM role with Cloudwatch write access.
2. Install Cloudwatch logs ec2 agent.
3. Configure log sources in the Cloudwatch agent configuration file.
4. Validate logs in Cloudwatch dashboard.

How do I know if CloudWatch is running?

You can query the CloudWatch agent to find whether it's running or stopped. You can use AWS Systems Manager to do this remotely. You can also use the command line, but only to check the local server. Open the Systems Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/ .