Serverless Observability

bene@theodo.co.uk

Ben Ellerby

@EllerbyBen

Not just Lambda (FaaS)

Lambda

Dynamo

API Gateway

Compute

Storage

Data

API Proxy

Cognito

Auth

SQS

Queue

EventBridge

Event Bus

Lambda Triggers

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Know what’s happening

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The flexibility, distribution and granularity of Serverless architectures makes logging hard.
Cloudwatch & XRay are the minimum.

Cloudwatch

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Collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing.

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Basic Lambda Metrics

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Dashboards

X-Ray

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X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray

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X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray: Lambda

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service: myService

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs12.x
  tracing:
    lambda: true

X-Ray: Lambda

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functions:
  hello:
    handler: handler.hello
    tracing: Active
  goodbye:
    handler: handler.goodbye
    tracing: PassThrough

X-Ray: API Gateway
Active Tracing

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# serverless.yml

provider:
  name: aws
  tracing:
    apiGateway: true

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Basic logging is a given. Add onto this, X-Ray Logging and specialised third-party Serverless logging providers (and Cloudwatch ServiceLens).

Build to make your logs recoverable.

@EllerbyBen

Serverless Observability

Not just Lambda (FaaS)

Lambda Triggers

Know what’s happening

The flexibility, distribution and granularity of Serverless architectures makes logging hard.

Cloudwatch & XRay are the minimum.

Cloudwatch

Collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing.

Basic Lambda Metrics

Dashboards

X-Ray

X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray

X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray: Lambda

X-Ray: Lambda

X-Ray: API Gateway
Active Tracing

DRAFT NOT COMPLETE - Serverless Observability

DRAFT NOT COMPLETE - Serverless Observability

Ben Ellerby

Serverless Observability

Not just Lambda (FaaS)

Lambda Triggers

Know what’s happening

The flexibility, distribution and granularity of Serverless architectures makes logging hard.

Cloudwatch & XRay are the minimum.

Cloudwatch

Collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing.

Basic Lambda Metrics

Dashboards

X-Ray

X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray

X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components

X-Ray: Lambda

X-Ray: Lambda

X-Ray: API Gateway Active Tracing

DRAFT NOT COMPLETE - Serverless Observability

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X-Ray: API Gateway
Active Tracing