The blog post by Mike Elsmore discusses the intricacies of implementing serverless logging, monitoring, and tracing for AWS Lambda functions using CloudWatch and other tools. It highlights the differences between traditional server-side JavaScript applications, which have access to the underlying OS, and serverless computing, where developers only deploy application code. The post explains how to capture and manage serverless logs using the Winston logger and Logz.io, and details the use of AWS Lambda to process logs from CloudWatch. It also describes setting up metrics collection using a Docker image that collects data from CloudWatch and forwards it to Logz.io, emphasizing the importance of integrating these processes within AWS infrastructure for security reasons. Additionally, the post outlines the configuration of a Jaeger collector for tracing, detailing the necessary AWS resources and configurations to facilitate this. Throughout, the author emphasizes the use of the Serverless framework and AWS CloudFormation to streamline deployment and management of serverless applications.