Summary

In this chapter, we have seen monitoring from a whole new perspective. We worked on the methods used to monitor a Lambda function, starting with the Lambda infrastructure metrics and graphs, and then receiving the application logs from the Lambda function in CloudWatch log groups.

We introduced the concept of observability and how tracing plays a role in making observability a reality. Then, we moved on to endpoint monitoring, where we configured a simple canary that we used to monitor the Packt Publishing website. Then, we saw how to monitor the SQS and SNS services to know when things are not working correctly in those services. We rounded things off with the last option in the workflow, which is on monitoring step functions. We want to be able to know when a function/step fails and easily fix it and test again. All this information is available in both the Step Functions console and the CloudWatch console for step functions.

In the next chapter, we shall be looking...