Set up memcached with a metric exporter on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes - Amazon CloudWatch

Set up memcached with a metric exporter on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

memcached is an open-source memory object caching system. For more information, see What is Memcached?.

If you are running memcached on a cluster with the Fargate launch type, you need to set up a Fargate profile before doing the steps in this procedure. To set up the profile, enter the following command. Replace MyCluster with the name of your cluster.

eksctl create fargateprofile --cluster MyCluster \
--namespace memcached-sample --name memcached-sample
To install memcached with a metric exporter to test Container Insights Prometheus support

  1. Enter the following command to add the repo:

    helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami

  2. Enter the following command to create a new namespace:

    kubectl create namespace memcached-sample

  3. Enter the following command to install Memcached

    helm install my-memcached bitnami/memcached --namespace memcached-sample \
--set metrics.enabled=true \
--set-string serviceAnnotations.prometheus\\.io/port="9150" \
--set-string serviceAnnotations.prometheus\\.io/scrape="true"

  4. Enter the following command to confirm the annotation of the running service:

    kubectl describe service my-memcached-metrics -n memcached-sample

    You should see the following two annotations:

    Annotations:   prometheus.io/port: 9150
               prometheus.io/scrape: true
To uninstall memcached

  • Enter the following commands:

    helm uninstall my-memcached --namespace memcached-sample
kubectl delete namespace memcached-sample