Monitoring a Serverless microservice with AWS X-Ray

Monitoring a Serverless microservice with AWS X-Ray

As you have probably noticed, monitoring, debugging and getting latency data for your microservices can be painful if they interact with multiple distributed services. For...
As you have probably noticed, monitoring, debugging and getting latency data for your microservices can be painful if they interact with multiple distributed services. For these types of microservices, you are usually forced to build your own performance testing application, add an inordinate amount of log statements, or simply crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. From one of AWS’s posts on the subject: “Traditional debugging methods don’t work so well for microservice based applications, in which there are multiple, independent components running on different services.” — AWS Lambda Support For AWS X-Ray As a result, AWS AWS X-Ray which,...