Introducing New Relic for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate
Blog post from New Relic
New Relic has expanded its monitoring capabilities to include Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) containers, specifically when deployed using AWS Fargate. This new integration allows for comprehensive monitoring by injecting a sidecar container into the Fargate node, enabling New Relic to collect data from kube-state-metrics, kubelet, and cAdvisor for full observability of the Kubernetes cluster. The integration supports any Fargate setup, whether the cluster consists solely of Fargate nodes or a mix with EC2 nodes, with compatibility for the Kubernetes cluster explorer in New Relic One, providing a detailed view of the cluster. Improved Kubernetes dashboards now distinguish between standard and Fargate serverless nodes, allowing users to filter Fargate nodes using specific tags. This development aims to leverage the benefits of serverless computing, such as reduced costs, diminished server maintenance, and increased productivity, by enabling developers to focus on software creation rather than infrastructure management.