Advanced Debugging and Monitoring for Serverless Backends

Serverless backends face unique monitoring challenges due to their distributed and proprietary nature, requiring specialized tools and techniques. Traditional debugging methods like CloudWatch can become ineffective as applications grow, highlighting the need for deeper visibility and customization capabilities. To address these challenges, third-party platforms like Lumigo have emerged to provide centralized views, real-time updates, and customizable metrics dashboards. These platforms offer features such as identifying cold starts, monitoring live logs, distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray and Lumigo, and error alerts with CloudWatch and Lumigo alarms. By leveraging these tools, developers can improve the monitoring and debugging process for serverless applications, enabling faster issue identification and resolution.