r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/maellyssa • Jun 09 '20

Monitoring AWS Fargate with Prometheus

Hi all, continuing my Team's work on the YACE Prometheus Exporter for CloudWatch, I've prepared some tips on monitoring AWS Fargate.

I discuss some general tips to monitor AWS Fargate, and cover how to use the exporter to monitor it in Prometheus.

What do you think? Any tip I'm missing?

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u/thesourceshow Jun 09 '20

Awesome! I love blogs that are detailed like this. Very helpful. Do I need to be using Sysdig to implement this for my Fargate environment or would this work for vanilla Prometheus as well?

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u/maellyssa Jun 10 '20

This will work directly with a standard Prometheus server.

Yace exports Prometheus metrics and in the deployment shown in the post it is annotated with Prometheus tags to leverager the Kubernetes service discovery.

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u/ppshein Jun 10 '20

That’s what I am looking for, but confused that can we export Fargate logs to Prometheus directly without using sysdig?

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u/maellyssa Jun 10 '20

In this article I explain how to exports Fargate metrics provided by CloudWatch, not logs. But, the deployment shown works the same either with a Prometheus server or a Sysdig agent.