Setting up Container Insights on RedHat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) - Amazon CloudWatch

Setting up Container Insights on RedHat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)

CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability supports RedHat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA). This version supports enhanced observability for ROSA clusters. After you install the CloudWatch agent operator Helm chart, Container Insights auto-collects detailed infrastructure telemetry from the cluster level down to the container level in your environment. It then displays this performance data in curated dashboards removing the heavy lifting in observability setup.

Note

For RedHat for OpenShift on AWS (ROSA), when you install the CloudWatch agent operator using helm charts, the CloudWatch agent is by default also enabled to receive both metrics and traces from your applications that are instrumented for Application Signals. If you would like to optionally pass in custom configuration rules, you can do so by passing in a custom agent configuration by using the Helm chart, as outlined in (Optional) [Additional configuration], as outlined in (Optional) Additional configuration.

To install Container Insights with enhanced observability on a RedHat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) cluster

  1. If necessary, install Helm. For more information, see Quickstart Guide in the Helm documentation.

  2. Install the CloudWatch agent operator by entering the following commands. Replace my-cluster-name with the name of your cluster, and replace my-cluster-region with the Region that the cluster runs in.

    helm repo add aws-observability https://aws-observability.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update aws-observability
helm install --wait --create-namespace \
    --namespace amazon-cloudwatch amazon-cloudwatch-observability \
    aws-observability/amazon-cloudwatch-observability \
    --set clusterName=my-cluster-name \
    --set region=my-cluster-region \
    --set k8sMode=ROSA

  3. Set up authorization for the agent operator by following the steps in Option 1, Option 2, or Option 3 in Install the CloudWatch agent with the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on or the Helm chart.