Building a single-pane NOC dashboard for Amazon EKS with Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Containers Blog describes a sample NOC dashboard for Amazon EKS built on Amazon CloudWatch, combining PromQL chart widgets with CloudWatch metric widgets. The sample comprises a 35-widget NOC and three drilldown dashboards for the retail store sample application, with a probe that validates each query against live telemetry before deployment. The post was validated with the Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on v6.4.0-eksbuild.1.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams running EKS can reuse the pattern and the validation probe to check that dashboard queries resolve, and can add freshness alarms to separate missing telemetry from healthy zero counts. Auto Mode scale-in can produce blank widgets, so teams need the freshness alarms to tell expected scale-in from pipeline failure.
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