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AWS eks documentation change

Service: eks · 2025-07-25 · Documentation low

File: eks/latest/userguide/workloads-add-ons-available-eks.md

Summary

Added SR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter add-on documentation

Security assessment

Documents a new monitoring add-on for network performance metrics. No security features or vulnerabilities addressed in the change.

Diff

diff --git a/eks/latest/userguide/workloads-add-ons-available-eks.md b/eks/latest/userguide/workloads-add-ons-available-eks.md
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@@ -5 +5 @@
-Amazon VPC CNI plugin for KubernetesCoreDNSKube-proxyAmazon EBS CSI driverAmazon EFS CSI driverAmazon FSx CSI driverMountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI DriverCSI snapshot controllerAmazon SageMaker HyperPod task governanceAmazon SageMaker HyperPod Observability Add-onAWS Network Flow Monitor AgentNode monitoring agentAWS Distro for OpenTelemetryAmazon GuardDuty agentAmazon CloudWatch Observability agentAWS Private CA Connector for KubernetesEKS Pod Identity Agent
+Amazon VPC CNI plugin for KubernetesCoreDNSKube-proxyAmazon EBS CSI driverAmazon EFS CSI driverAmazon FSx CSI driverMountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI DriverCSI snapshot controllerAmazon SageMaker HyperPod task governanceAmazon SageMaker HyperPod Observability Add-onAWS Network Flow Monitor AgentNode monitoring agentAWS Distro for OpenTelemetryAmazon GuardDuty agentAmazon CloudWatch Observability agentAWS Private CA Connector for KubernetesEKS Pod Identity AgentSR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter
@@ -35,0 +36 @@ Enable cert-manager to issue X.509 certificates from AWS Private CA. Requires ce
+Generate Prometheus metrics about SR-IOV network device performance |  SR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter |  EC2  
@@ -441,0 +443,17 @@ You can only update one minor version at a time. For example, if your current ve
+## SR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter
+
+The SR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter Amazon EKS add-on collects and exposes metrics about SR-IOV network devices in Prometheus format. It enables monitoring of SR-IOV network performance on EKS bare metal nodes. The exporter runs as a DaemonSet on nodes with SR-IOV-capable network interfaces and exports metrics that can be scraped by Prometheus.
+
+###### Note
+
+This add-on requires nodes with SR-IOV-capable network interfaces.
+
+Property | Value  
+---|---  
+Add-on name |  `sriov-network-metrics-exporter`  
+Namespace |  `monitoring`  
+Documentation |  [SR-IOV Network Metrics Exporter GitHub repo](https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-metrics-exporter)  
+Service account name |  None  
+Managed IAM policy |  None  
+Custom IAM permissions |  None  
+