Chapter 7: Monitoring Serverless Applications

The previous chapter exposed to us the different ways of monitoring different AWS database technologies. We went from relational to non-relational databases, also called NoSQL databases. We then moved on to the cache database, and for that, we worked with Amazon ElastiCache, Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB, and saw the different graphs that are generated automatically and the important metrics in these graphs that we should pay close attention to.

This chapter is going to take us on a new ride. We will be introducing the concept of serverless and talk about monitoring on some select AWS serverless services. We shall clarify the difference between serverless and managed services, which can be confusing in a lot of cases, but we shall demystify that in this chapter. Then, we shall introduce endpoint monitoring, which we talked about in Chapter 1, Introduction to Monitoring. It is a type of reactive monitoring that responds after a failure...