Reviewing Amazon DevOps Guru insights for serverless applications in AWS
In Chapter 7, Observability for Serverless Application on AWS, we deployed a serverless application using a CloudFormation template. We will use the same application to troubleshoot and provide root cause analysis using DevOps Guru. If you have come to this chapter directly, then execute the following Quick Start CloudFormation template to deploy the application and insert a few records, as explained in Chapter 7: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home#/stacks/new?stackName=serverless-app2&templateURL=https://insiders-guide-observability-on-aws-book.s3.amazonaws.com/chapter-07/final/template.yaml.
We will simulate the load on DynamoDB by continuously reading the records that have been inserted as a part of this example scenario to generate the load on the application and understand reactive insights.
Let’s enable DevOps Guru for the CloudFormation’s Serverless-app2 stack and...