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Observing All the Serverless Things

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This talk demonstrates how to detect and investigate failures in serverless applications on AWS using CloudWatch. It covers observability practices and introduces SLIC Watch for automating dashboards and alarms.

Syllabus

Intro
Serverless HPC FTW
A typical case study
Observability in the cloud
Can we test our ovservability?
Alerts flow
Making sense of alerts
Initial hypothesis
Gathering evidence
Checking timeouts
Inspecting DynamoDB capacity
Tracing errors
HTTP 502
Lambda CloudWatch logs
Conclusions
Before & after
What we have learned so far
AWS native observability = CloudWatch
Alternatives outside AWS
CloudWatch out of the box
Getting the best out of CloudWatch
Best practices
CloudFormation for CloudWatch alarms
Can we automate this?
Intro to SLIC Watch
How SLIC Watch works
Before & after SLIC Watch
Configuration
How to get started with SLIC Watch
What if I'm not using serverless framework?
Roadmap
Wrap-up
Outro

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