Serverless Observability
bene@theodo.co.uk
Ben Ellerby
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Not just Lambda (FaaS)
Lambda
S3
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.
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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: trueX-Ray: Lambda
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functions:
hello:
handler: handler.hello
tracing: Active
goodbye:
handler: handler.goodbye
tracing: PassThroughX-Ray: API Gateway
Active Tracing
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# serverless.yml
provider:
name: aws
tracing:
apiGateway: true@EllerbyBen
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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.
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DRAFT NOT COMPLETE - Serverless Observability
By Ben Ellerby
DRAFT NOT COMPLETE - Serverless Observability
Talk given at the AWS Community Summit.
