Problems With AWS Lambda Observability And How Dashbird Solves Them

Using event-driven distributed systems has countless business benefits but easy observability isn't one of them. The more functions you have, the more complicated things get. Fortunately there is a solution for this - Dashbird! The serverless space is maturing and it’s usage is skyrocketing(AWS Lambda being the de facto leader in this space). Since it has brought a whole paradigm change to software engineering, we are seeing some unique challenges as well. Serverless architectures are built in a totally different way. Sooner or later you will end up with hundreds or even thousands of functions that are connected with countless other services/endpoints.

The serverless space is maturing and it’s usage is skyrocketing)(AWS Lambda being the de facto leader in this space). Since it has brought a whole paradigm change to software engineering, we are seeing some unique challenges as well. Serverless architectures are built in a totally different way. Sooner or later you will end up with hundreds or even thousands of functions that are connected with countless other services/endpoints.

Since you don’t have to worry about the infrastructure on the server side of things anymore, you won’t have the same kind of access to all the monitoring, tracing, debugging, alerting and log aggregation options that you used to have with “old-school workflows” or container-based setups. Serverless observability is a real issue. That’s exactly the reason why Dashbird was launched in 2017. So, in this article I’m listing all the biggest observability challenges serverless computing brings and how Dashbird helps to solve them.

No top-level visibility

AWS Lambda is offering CloudWatch for monitoring your functions, but it only performs up to a point when you are just starting out with serverless and only have a few lambda functions to monitor. It automatically collects metrics and logs, but regarding the bird’s-eye-view, you are left in the dark. You’ll never know how good the overall health of your serverless application is. Especially when it grows to a larger scale and introduces more complexity.

So to get centralized overview of your serverless stack’s health, you should sign up for a free Dashbird account. Unlike some of the competitors, Dashbird doesn’t use any wrappers, but collects and visualizes actionable data from your CloudWatch logs. You just need to connect your AWS account - the whole setup takes less than 2 minutes and there are no code-changes involved.

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