Upgrade AWS CloudWatch Metrics to atleast v1.300051.0 #1216
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
We are running into sporadic failures with the AWS CloudWatch Metrics agent on EKS. The error being observed are IMDS retry failures which doesn't seem to be tied to our configurations. The Helm chart is using an almost year-old version of the agent so we cannot be certain that the problems aren't arising because of the app itself.
Here are some relevant Github Issues I found:
- CloudWatch Agent fails to authenticate: IMDS Issues aws-observability/helm-charts#75
- amazon-cloudwatch-observability fails with open /root/.aws/credentials ignoring the IRSA credentials amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1101
- Metadata error logs in Cloudwatch agent - 404 EC2MetadataError: failed to make EC2Metadata request amazon-cloudwatch-agent#1435
The recommendation across the board seems to be to update the application's version, which we cannot because the latest version of the Helm chart is still using app version v1.300032.2b361
Is your feature request related to a specific Helm chart, if yes mention name of the chart?
aws-cloudwatch-metrics
Describe the solution you'd like
Update the app version of the aws-cloudwatch-metrics chart to atleast: v1.300051.0
Describe alternatives you've considered
We are process-locked here and would like for the Helm chart to be updated instead of trying any alternative sources for the newer version of the application.