CloudwatchContainerInsights is used to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices. Container Insights is available for Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EC2. The metrics include utilization for resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network. Container Insights also provides diagnostic information, such as container restart failures, to help you isolate issues and resolve them quickly. You can also set CloudWatch alarms on metrics that Container Insights collects.

The metrics that Container Insights collects are available in CloudWatch automatic dashboards. You can analyze and troubleshoot container performance and logs data with CloudWatch Logs Insights.

Kubernetes 1.4+:

• the CW Insights Agent supports Kubernetes 1.4+
• The CW Insights Agent chart's defaults are tailored to Kubernetes 1.7.6+

By default, the Container Insight Agent runs in a DaemonSet. It can alternatively run inside a Deployment for special use cases.

Note: simultaneous DaemonSet + Deployment installation within a single release will be deprecated in a future version, requiring two releases to achieve this.

To install the chart with the release name <RELEASE_NAME>, run:

helm install --name <RELEASE_NAME> \
  --set namespace=<TARGET_NAMESPACE> 

By default, this chart create all the Container Insight's functionality to a specified namespace. Namespace YAML are also provided in this repo.