New Relic's AWS Lambda layer

Earlier this year, New Relic introduced New Relic Monitoring for AWS Lambda as part of its observability platform, New Relic One, which was well-received by customers who appreciated the enhanced visibility into AWS Lambda-based applications. The company has since streamlined serverless function monitoring by launching two new methods for adding monitoring and observability to serverless functions without code changes. These include a Serverless Plugin for real-time metrics and a manual addition of New Relic’s AWS Lambda layer for simpler instrumentation. Lambda layers, which support Node.js and Python, allow users to include libraries in their functions without adding them to the deployment package, reducing errors and package size. New Relic has also enhanced its serverless team by integrating the IOpipe team, which will contribute to the development and integration of AWS Lambda Layers and deployment frameworks into the New Relic One platform. The company encourages users to explore these innovations at AWS re:Invent 2019 and offers a free trial to get started with their serverless monitoring solutions.