EKS EC2 Nodes Monitoring - Logs & Metrics Setup

Overview

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS. SigNoz helps you monitor cluster health, pod performance, and container metrics.

Prerequisites

AWS account with appropriate permissions
SigNoz Cloud account or Self-Hosted SigNoz
An EKS cluster running

K8s-Infra Helm Chart

The K8s-Infra Helm chart provides comprehensive EKS monitoring, collecting all logs and metrics including pod-level metrics, node metrics, container logs, and more. This method works for both SigNoz Cloud and Self-Hosted.

What You Can Collect

Data Type	Description
Logs	Container logs from all pods
Pod Metrics	CPU, memory, network usage per pod
Node Metrics	Node-level CPU, memory, disk, network
Cluster Metrics	Overall cluster health and resources
Kubernetes Events	Cluster events and state changes

Setup

For complete installation instructions, follow the K8s-Infra Installation Guide.

The setup involves:

Add the SigNoz Helm repository and update your local cache
Create an override-values.yaml with EKS-specific configuration (set global.cloud: aws to enable EKS resource detection)
Install the chart using Helm
Verify data in SigNoz

Dashboard Templates

Explore pre-built Kubernetes Dashboards for pod, node, and cluster metrics.

For advanced configuration (filtering logs, Prometheus scraping, etc.), see the K8s-Infra Configuration Guide.

Validate

Once installed, your EKS data will appear in:

Logs: Navigate to Logs tab → Logs Explorer
Metrics: Navigate to Infrastructure Monitoring → Kubernetes to see pods, nodes, namespaces, and deployments

Kubernetes view in SigNoz Infrastructure Monitoring — *View your EKS cluster in SigNoz Infrastructure Monitoring*

Next Steps

K8s-Infra Installation Guide – Detailed installation instructions.
Configure K8s-Infra – Customize log filtering, metrics collection, and more.
Infrastructure Monitoring Overview – Learn about the Infrastructure Monitoring module features.

One-Click Integration

One-Click Integration is available for SigNoz Cloud only. It collects only cluster-level metrics via AWS Container Insights and does not collect pod logs, node metrics, or detailed container metrics. For comprehensive EKS monitoring, use the K8s-Infra Helm Chart instead. This method uses AWS CloudFormation and CloudWatch, which may incur additional AWS charges.

Step 1: Connect Your AWS Account

Follow the One-Click AWS Integrations Guide to:

Deploy the CloudFormation stack
Connect your AWS account to SigNoz

Step 2: Enable EKS Monitoring

Once connected, SigNoz will auto-discover your EKS clusters and begin collecting Container Insights metrics from CloudWatch.

Ensure Container Insights is enabled on your EKS cluster for metrics to be available.

What's Collected

Metric	Description
`pod_status_running`	Number of running pods
`pod_status_pending`	Number of pending pods
`pod_status_failed`	Number of failed pods
`pod_number_of_container_restarts`	Container restart counts
`pod_number_of_containers`	Total container count
`status_replicas_available`	Available replicas
`status_replicas_unavailable`	Unavailable replicas

Pre-built Dashboards

Navigate to Dashboards and search for "EKS" to find automatically imported dashboards:

EKS Control Plane Overview: Monitor control plane health
EKS Container Insights Overview: Track pod and container status

Monitor EKS Logs and Metrics using SigNoz