I recently started monitoring our Kubernetes cluster using Cloudwatch monitoring agents. But I am unable to get the monitoring done for a couple of very important metrics.

• Number of Failed pods per deployment
• Number of Failed pods per Namespace
• Number of Failed pods per Cluster

Pod failure is the basic unit that needs to be monitored and I am unable to get this done through AWS Cloudwatch. I was referring to Container Insights Docs, And nothing mentioned there. Are there any way I can configure the Cloudwatch agent to capture these metrics.

Edit: More information after researching

There are few issues raised against AWS Container Monitoring.

• https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/38
• https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/120
• https://github.com/cloudposse/prometheus-to-cloudwatch

Looks like aws is a way behind all other wrt to Kubernetes ecosystem.