Instrumenting serverless in AWS
Blog post from New Relic
The blog post discusses setting up serverless instrumentation for AWS applications using New Relic, focusing on enhancing visibility into serverless functions, essential for cloud-native customers. It guides engineers through using AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, and Amazon RDS for a three-tiered application, providing tips and code examples for efficient monitoring. The post emphasizes the importance of monitoring serverless applications to optimize resource utilization, identify performance issues, and improve overall application performance. It offers a step-by-step guide on configuring New Relic serverless monitoring through AWS integrations, Metric Stream, and Lambda layers, highlighting the ease of instrumenting Lambda functions without code-level changes for supported languages. By following the guide, users can achieve better observability, detect anomalies, and ensure the reliability and scalability of their serverless applications.