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Local Log Monitoring: Bridging the Observability Gap in AWS EKS with Stern, Fluent Bit, and Elasticsearch

M Sandy H

This tutorial teaches how to build a local observability stack for AWS EKS logs using Stern for multi-pod tailing, Fluent Bit for log processing with multiline parsing, and Elasticsearch with Kibana for searchable visualization via Docker Compose.

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    EgressGateway provides stable egress IP addresses for pods accessing external services.

  • Git Change Operator

    git-change-operator is a Kubernetes operator that enables automated Git operations from within clusters through GitCommit and PullRequest custom resources.

  • Orphan Resource Collector

    Orphan Resource Collector (ORC) is an open-source tool for detecting and managing orphaned resources in Kubernetes clusters.

  • Goldpinger: monitoring connectivity

    Goldpinger is a monitoring tool that runs as a DaemonSet and makes calls between pod instances to test connectivity.

  • Kube Binpacking Exporter (KBE)

    Kube Binpacking Exporter exposes Prometheus metrics that show how efficiently your cluster packs requested CPU and memory across nodes, groups, and DaemonSet overhead so you can measure fragmentation over time.

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