A company runs a critical customer-facing microservices application on Amazon EKS. The company needs a centralized solution to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from the application. Which solution meets these requirements?
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Correct answer: Configure Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights in the existing EKS cluster. View the metrics and logs in the CloudWatch console..
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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights is specifically designed for monitoring containerized applications, including those on Amazon EKS. It automatically collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from containers, pods, services, and clusters, providing a centralized view in the CloudWatch console. This directly addresses the requirement for collecting, aggregating, and summarizing data. Running the Amazon CloudWatch agent in the EKS cluster is a valid approach for collecting logs and custom metrics, but Container Insights offers a more comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution tailored for container environments. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh for microservices and focuses on traffic control, observability, and security, not centralized
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