Lambda Deep Dive Pt4

Logging and monitoring for the serverless Lambda

hello avatars, celt here to talk about logging and monitoring in Lambda. Anyone that runs a production workload knows that logging and monitoring is a foundational need to ensure business continuity. This can fall under an SRE skillset, and important to know to create stable applications. Monitoring is often an overlooked part of an application, but again, knowing lesser known knowledge gives you an advantage/niche.

Dont forget to read the previous installments of this series. Parts 1-3.

Lambda Monitoring and Logging

Serverless services can create challenges with logging and monitoring as the traditional view of logging and monitoring is to install various agents and use those services to report back to a main server. Cloud native monitoring and logging takes a different paradigm.

The main tools used for logging and monitoring on Lambda are CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, and Config.