In this demo, New Relic shows how to observe performance and dependencies in you EKS environment, and to troubleshoot failures, bottlenecks, and other abnormal behavior—helping ensure that your applications are always available, running fast, and doing what they’re supposed to.

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Multidimensional Amazon EKS
Monitoring with New Relic
Stijn Polfliet
Principal Technical Evangelist

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PASSIONATE ABOUT
STIJN POLFLIET
Technical Evangelist
From Belgium
Living in Barcelona

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“HELP, I NEED TO
KUBERNETES”
KUBERNETES
PROMISE LAND
KUBERNETES ADOPTION JOURNEY

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Kubernetes Requires Teams to
Rethink and Adapt Their Monitoring
Kubernetes Cluster
Node
Pod/Deployments
Applications
Containers
End User Experience
Supporting
Infrastructure

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New Relic Kubernetes Observability
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kube-state-metrics
Service that generates metrics
for Kubernetes objects
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New Relic
metadata injection
Expose Kubernetes metadata
for contextual troubleshooting
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New Relic Infrastructure
Kubernetes Integration
Deploy a DaemonSet with New
Relic’s Kubernetes integration

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DEMO

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Play time!
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AWS Quick Start for EKS + New Relic available NOW at
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/new-relic-infrastructure/
All source code available at
https://github.com/polfliet/newrelic-interactive-demo/
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