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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding CloudWatch

As mentioned earlier, CloudWatch is the logging and monitoring service of AWS. We have already looked at and learned about the CloudWatch Alarms, which are a sub-feature of CloudWatch. We will now learn about the graphing suite of the service. Almost every service in the AWS environment has a way to send it's logs and metrics to CloudWatch for logging and monitoring purposes. Each service might have several metrics which can be monitored, depending on the function.

Similarly, AWS Lambda also has some metrics, such as the invocation count, the invocation's running time, and so on, which it sends to CloudWatch. It is also helpful to note that the developers can also send custom metrics to CloudWatch. So in the following steps, we shall be learning about the different parts and functions of AWS CloudWatch corresponding to AWS Lambda:

  1. Firstly, let...
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