Learn about the AWS App Mesh Integration.

AWS App Mesh Integration

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that allows you to monitor and control communications across microservices applications on AWS.

Click the Setup tab for instructions on:

  • Setting up your environment to send AWS App Mesh metrics to Operations for Applications.
  • Setting up your environment to send AWS App Mesh traces to Operations for Applications.

This integration also installs a dashboard. Here’s a preview of the AWS App Mesh dashboard:

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Reporting AWS App Mesh Metrics to Operations for Applications

This integration uses the Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes to send metrics. The collector can send metrics to Operations for Applications using either the Wavefront proxy or direct ingestion.

The following instructions are for reporting metrics. To report traces, use the AWS App Mesh tracing setup instructions below.

Step 1. Set up Wavefront Proxy

Follow these steps to deploy a Wavefront proxy. If you plan on sending metrics directly to the Operations for Applications service, this step is not required. If you plan to send traces, use the proxy set up instructions in the tracing section below.

Step 2. Deploy and Configure the Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes

You can deploy the collector using kubectl. To send metrics to Operations for Applications, set up the collector with Auto Discovery.

Refer to the collector [documentation] for configuration details and installation instructions.

Also, Refer to the Auto Discovery [documentation] to set up collector with Auto Discovery.

A sample deployment to deploy the collector with discovery rules can be found here.

Reporting AWS App Mesh Traces to Operations for Applications

The following instructions are for reporting traces. To report metrics, use the AWS App Mesh metrics setup instructions above.

Step 1. Set up Wavefront Proxy

Follow these steps to deploy a Wavefront proxy. As part of the process, uncomment the appropriate lines to enable Zipkin/Istio traces. Use a proxy version 4.35 or later.

Step 2. Set up Envoy to Send Zipkin Format Traces to Wavefront Proxy

  • Follow the Envoy documentation to set up Envoy proxy to collect and report Zipkin traces to a Zipkin cluster.
  • Modify the Zipkin cluster to point to the Wavefront proxy.

Look at the sample deployment here.

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