AWS CloudWatch made easy with Pulumi Infrastructure-as-Code

Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS provides robust tools for gaining insights and visualizations within Pulumi applications, crucial for monitoring long-lived cloud applications. It allows developers to define and visualize metrics, create alarms, and dashboards to track the health of services, integrating these elements from the start rather than as an afterthought. This integration is demonstrated through a hackathon project involving a Slack bot designed to monitor @mentions, using AWS services like SNS and Lambda to handle messages efficiently due to Slack's time constraints. By employing Pulumi's Crosswalk APIs, developers can profile Lambda Functions, track their duration, and set up CloudWatch alarms and dashboards to monitor application performance effectively. This seamless integration ensures that applications can adapt to changes without requiring manual updates to alarms and dashboards, offering a powerful and simplified way to maintain app health and performance.