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title: "Verify CloudWatch Container Insights is working"
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To verify that data is being collected in CloudWatch, launch the CloudWatch Containers UI in your browser using the link generated by the command below

```bash
echo "
Use the URL below to access Cloudwatch Container Insights in $AWS_REGION:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=${AWS_REGION}#container-insights:performance/EKS:Service?~(query~(controls~(CW*3a*3aEKS.cluster~(~'eksworkshop-eksctl)))~context~())"
```

![Insights](/images/ekscwci/insights.png)

From here you can see the metrics are being collected and presented to CloudWatch. You can switch between various drop downs to see EKS Services, EKS Cluster and more.

![Metrics Option](/images/ekscwci/metricsoptions.png)

#### We can now continue with load testing the cluster to see how these metrics can look under load.