#serverless #monitoring — the good, the bad and the ugly
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Not so long ago, a job requirement pushed me into the world of FaaS, and I was thrilled. I had dreams of abstraction — eliminating all that tedious work no developer likes doing. “We are not operations engineers!” I exclaimed proudly. “We should not need to dabble in the dark arts of the Linux Shell.”But little did I know how wrong I was. We humans are creatures of habit, and one of my habits as an #aws user is checking the AWS Console religiously. It was my central place to monitor everything I needed to know about my servers’ health.Now comes the difficult question: How does monitoring work when using AWS Lambda and Serverless?Monitoring 101All applications have metrics we, as developers, need to monitor. This is crucial: downtime and slow apps can create some pretty grumpy customers.Trust me, (...)