Announcing AWS Lambda Telemetry API Support for Sysdig Monitor

AWS has introduced the AWS Lambda Telemetry API to address challenges in monitoring serverless environments like AWS Lambda, which traditionally suffer from issues such as ephemeral nature and distributed execution. This API allows real-time access to function metrics, enabling providers like Sysdig to develop telemetry tools packaged as Lambda Layers, which can be attached to Lambda functions to collect and generate critical real-time metrics, including invocation count and function duration. Sysdig's Monitor Lambda Extension leverages this API to provide lower latency and higher fidelity metrics collection compared to AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams, offering users the potential for improved monitoring and reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR). The extension, compatible with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standards, simplifies instrumentation by integrating Lambda events into Sysdig's platform, offering greater insight into Lambda function performance and states, and is available in preview mode for users seeking enhanced observability in near real-time.