Disable collecting metrics/logs with annotation based on the cloudwatch agent.

[tushar-012]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If a pod has the annotation aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch-agent-ignore: true it should be ignored by the amazon-cloudwatch-agent and logs/metrics should not be pushed to cloudwatch for that pod.

[1]

amazon-cloudwatch-agent/plugins/processors/k8sdecorator/stores/podstore.go

Line 31 in dd1be96

ignoreAnnotation = "aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch-agent-ignore"

[2]

amazon-cloudwatch-agent/plugins/processors/k8sdecorator/stores/podstore.go

Lines 144 to 146 in dd1be96

	// Ignore if we're told to ignore
	if strings.EqualFold(entry.pod.ObjectMeta.Annotations[ignoreAnnotation], "true") {
	return false

[RDarrylR]

Any update on this? I had a call with AWS SA's about this a while back and they mentioned it was being looked at.

[awesomeinsight]

We are also interested in the current status here. Thanks in advance!

[ldcmxn]

This is also an issue for me.
All desired pods are annotated correctly.

Using the EKS AddOn with Enhanced Observability.

Are there any updates on this topic?

[darkhelmet]

So I'm the person that originally added that code, and it worked great when I did it. I guess something changed along the way with enhanced container insights or something. I don't know, but I'm in the same boat where a bunch of CronJob Pods are now dumping metrics into CW and I'm wondering what's up with that.