loading . . . Application Performance Monitoring Enabled by Default in CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on <p>Today, Amazon CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on version 5.0.0 automatically enables CloudWatch Application Signals — Amazon's application performance monitoring (APM) capability — for all new installations and upgrades, eliminating the previous manual opt-in step. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies running containerized applications at scale. The CloudWatch Observability add-on for EKS extends native Kubernetes observability by integrating Enhanced Container Insights, Container Logs, and now Application Signals directly into your clusters. The Observability add-on automatically instruments your services to collect traces, metrics, and logs for a unified, application-centric view. For DevOps engineers, platform teams, and developers who needed application-level visibility into their EKS-hosted services — such as service latency, error rates, and request traces — this change closes that gap by making those capabilities available out of the box, so teams can focus on building and operating applications rather than configuring observability tooling.azon EKS.</p>
<p>With Application Signals now enabled by default, customers immediately benefit from automatic service instrumentation — no manual configuration or Kubernetes workload annotations required — along with pre-built dashboards that surface application performance metrics and a rich troubleshooting experience that goes beyond infrastructure-level data to help teams quickly identify and resolve issues. For example, a platform team managing a microservices application on EKS can now detect latency spikes or error rate increases at the service level without any additional setup, accelerating root cause analysis during incidents.</p>
<p>This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals is available; to get started, you can refer to the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Observability-EKS-addon.html#Container-Insights-setup-EKS-appsignalsconfiguration">Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals documentation</a> and upgrade to version 5.0.0 of the add-on.</p> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/application-performance-monitoring-cloudwatch-eks/
