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# EKS Insight

EKS Insight provides visibility into the performance, configuration, and health of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters. It helps identify issues, optimize workloads, and improve cluster reliability by analyzing metrics, logs, and events. This resource supports proactive monitoring and troubleshooting for Kubernetes environments running on AWS.

```
aws.eks_insight
```

## Fields

| Title                     | ID   | Type       | Data Type                                                                                                                                         | Description |
| ------------------------- | ---- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| _key                      | core | string     |
| account_id                | core | string     |
| additional_info           | core | hstore     | Links to sources that provide additional context on the insight.                                                                                  |
| category                  | core | string     | The category of the insight.                                                                                                                      |
| category_specific_summary | core | json       | Summary information that relates to the category of the insight. Currently only returned with certain insights having category UPGRADE_READINESS. |
| description               | core | string     | The description of the insight which includes alert criteria, remediation recommendation, and additional resources (contains Markdown).           |
| id                        | core | string     | The ID of the insight.                                                                                                                            |
| insight_status            | core | json       | An object containing more detail on the status of the insight resource.                                                                           |
| kubernetes_version        | core | string     | The Kubernetes minor version associated with an insight if applicable.                                                                            |
| last_refresh_time         | core | timestamp  | The time Amazon EKS last successfully completed a refresh of this insight check on the cluster.                                                   |
| last_transition_time      | core | timestamp  | The time the status of the insight last changed.                                                                                                  |
| name                      | core | string     | The name of the insight.                                                                                                                          |
| recommendation            | core | string     | A summary of how to remediate the finding of this insight if applicable.                                                                          |
| resources                 | core | json       | The details about each resource listed in the insight check result.                                                                               |
| tags                      | core | hstore_csv |