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EKS Intelligence dashboard

EKS Intelligence helps you identify and track Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cost and usage for clusters running on Amazon EC2 nodes.

Required permission​

To access EKS Intelligence, your DoiT account needs the Cloud Analytics User permission.

EKS Intelligence dashboard​

The EKS Intelligence dashboard consists of multiple preset report widgets that highlight various aspects of your Amazon EKS spend. Make sure to install the Kubernetes Intelligence agent on your clusters in order to see all the EKS metrics.

To access the EKS Intelligence dashboard, select Dashboard from the top navigation bar, and then select EKS Intelligence under Workloads & Ops.

EKS Intelligence dashboard

  • Widgets on the dashboard are updated independently of each other. See Refresh report data for more information.

  • For each report, you can Open full report to check the report configuration or customize the preset report to create your own one.

  • Selecting See your list of clusters will open the EKS clusters page, where you can check the status of your EKS clusters.

EKS Nodes Cost by Cluster​

EKS Nodes Cost by Cluster report widget

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 30 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • Provider equals Amazon Web Services
    • Service equals Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Group by: EKS cluster name
  • Advanced options:
    • Advanced Analysis: Forecast

EKS Control Plane Cost​

EKS Control Plane Cost report widget

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 6 months (include current month)
  • Time Interval: Month
  • Filters:
    • Service equals Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Group by: EKS cluster name, Region

EKS Interactive Cost Explorer​

EKS Interactive Cost Explorer widget

The EKS Interactive Cost Explorer is a treemap that allows you to drill down from clusters to namespaces and apps.

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 7 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • EKS cluster name not equals [Label N/A]
    • EKS namespace not equals [Label N/A]
  • Group by: EKS cluster name, EKS namespace, EKS label_k8s_app

EKS Unallocated Resources by Cluster​

EKS Unallocated Resources by Cluster report widget

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 7 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • EKS cluster name not equals [Label N/A]
    • EKS pod_owner_name equals UNREQUESTED_COSTS
  • Group by: EKS cluster name, EKS pod_owner_name

EKS Cost by Top 15 Namespaces​

EKS Cost by Top 15 Namespaces report widget

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 7 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • EKS namespace not equals [Label N/A]
    • EKS pod_owner_name equals UNREQUESTED_COSTS
  • Group by: EKS namespace
  • Limit results: Limit to top 15 by cost

EKS Cost by Top 20 Clusters​

EKS Cost by Top 20 Clusters report widget

Shows the top 20 EKS clusters by cost in the last 7 days.

Report configuration:

  • Metric: Cost
  • Time Range: Last 7 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • EKS cluster name not equals [Label N/A]
  • Group by: EKS cluster name
  • Limit results: Limit to top 20 by cost

EKS Clusters Utilization​

EKS Clusters Utilization report widget

Shows the utilization of resources across EKS clusters.

Report configuration:

  • Metric: EKS Capacity Utilization
  • Time Range: Last 7 days (include current day)
  • Time Interval: Day
  • Filters:
    • Attribution is EKS Allocated Resources or EKS Unallocated Resources
    • EKS cluster name not equals [Label N/A]
  • Group by: EKS cluster name
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