How AWS CloudWatch Agent on Kubernetes Blew Our AWS Bill

<p>When running a microservice-based architecture, traffic flows from the front-end, passes through multiple microservices, and eventually receives the final response from the back-end. Kubernetes is a container orchestrating service that helps us run and manage these numerous microservices, including multiple copies of them if necessary.</p> <p>During the lifecycle of a request, if it fails at a specific microservice while moving from one service to another, pinpointing the exact point of failure becomes challenging. Observability is a paradigm that allows us to understand the system end-to-end. It provides insights into the &ldquo;what,&rdquo; &ldquo;where,&rdquo; and &ldquo;why&rdquo; of any event within the system, and how it may impact application performance.</p> <p><a href="https://aws.plainenglish.io/how-aws-cloudwatch-agent-on-kubernetes-blew-our-aws-bill-0e4fff37afe9"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>