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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Monitoring Lambda functions using Datadog


Although CloudWatch and X-Ray are really awesome tools, there are times when these tools are simply not enough to work with at an enterprise level. This can hold true for a variety of reasons; take for example maturity--now, although X-Ray provides you with some real time trace statistics, it's still a very young service and will take time to evolve, into say, something provided by an enterprise transaction monitoring tool such as Dynatrace. Dynatrace actually leverages artificial intelligence to detect performance and availability issues and pinpoints their root causes; something that X-Ray doesn't support today. The same can be said for CloudWatch as well. Although you can monitor your AWS infrastructure using CloudWatch, sometimes you may require some extra tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and so on to do some customized monitoring for you. Mind you, this doesn't mean there's something wrong in using AWS services for monitoring or performance...