Getting down and dirty with metric-based alerting for #aws #lambda
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The phrase “better safe than sorry” gets thrown around whenever people talk about monitoring or getting observability into your AWS resources but the truth is that you can’t sit around and wait until a problem arises, you need to proactively look for opportunities to improve your application in order to stay one step ahead of the competition. Setting up alerts that go off whenever a particular event happens is a great way to keep tabs on what’s going on behind the scenes of your #serverless applications and this is exactly what I’d like to tackle in this article.AWS Lambda MetricsAWS Lambda is monitoring functions for you automatically, while it reports metrics through the Amazon CloudWatch. The metrics we speak of consist of total invocations, throttles, duration, error, DLQ errors, etc. You (...)