“Seamless Kubernetes Visibility Across AWS with EKS Dashboard”

We're excited to announce the EKS Dashboard, a new feature designed to give cloud architects and cluster administrators a unified, organization-wide view of their Kubernetes clusters. Now, you can easily monitor clusters spread across various AWS Regions and accounts from a single console, simplifying tasks like tracking cluster inventory, checking compliance, and planning essential operations such as version upgrades.

The Challenge of Distributed Kubernetes

As organizations expand their Kubernetes footprint, they often deploy numerous clusters across different environments. This approach, while great for boosting availability, ensuring business continuity, or maintaining data sovereignty, can make it tough to keep tabs on everything, especially in decentralized setups spanning multiple Regions and accounts. Many customers currently rely on third-party tools for this centralized visibility, which often comes with added complexity from identity and access configurations, licensing fees, and ongoing maintenance.

Simplified Monitoring with Native AWS Integration

The EKS Dashboard streamlines this experience by offering native dashboard capabilities directly within the AWS Console. It provides deep insights into three key resources: clusters, managed node groups, and EKS add-ons. You'll get aggregated data on cluster distribution by Region, account, version, and support status, along with forecasted extended support EKS control plane costs and cluster health metrics. Plus, you can easily drill down into specific data points with automatic filtering, helping you quickly spot and focus on clusters that need your attention.

Setting up EKS Dashboard

Customers can access the Dashboard in EKS console through AWS Organizations’ management and delegated administrator accounts. The setup process is straightforward and includes simply enabling trusted access as a one-time setup in the Amazon EKS console’s organizations settings page. Trusted access is available from the Dashboard settings page. Enabling trusted access will allow the management account to view the Dashboard. For more information on setup and configuration, see the official AWS Documentation.

A quick tour of EKS Dashboard

The dashboard provides both graphical, tabular, and map views of your Kubernetes clusters, with advanced filtering, and search capabilities. You can also export data for further analysis or custom reporting.

EKS Dashboard overview with key info about your clusters.

There is a wide variety of available widgets to help visualize your clusters.

You can visualize your managed node groups by instance type distribution, launch templates, AMI versions, and more

There is even a map view where you can see all of your clusters across the globe.

Beyond EKS clusters

EKS Dashboard isn’t limited to just Amazon EKS clusters; it can also provide visibility into connected Kubernetes clusters running on-premises or on other cloud providers. While connected clusters may have limited data fidelity compared to native Amazon EKS clusters, this capability enables truly unified visibility for organizations running hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Available now

EKS Dashboard is available today in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and is able to aggregate data from all commercial AWS Regions. There is no additional charge for using the EKS Dashboard. To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation.

This new capability demonstrates our continued commitment to simplifying Kubernetes operations for our customers, enabling them to focus on building and scaling their applications rather than managing infrastructure. We’re excited to see how customers use EKS Dashboard to enhance their Kubernetes operations.