Testing and Monitoring Production
Implement strategies for testing your serverless application and set up robust monitoring and alerting for production environments.
Beyond Dev: Production Monitoring
When your serverless application goes live, testing in development isn't enough. You need robust production monitoring to ensure it's always available, performing well, and serving your users correctly.
Production monitoring focuses on real-time insights, detecting issues before they impact users, and understanding the system's health in a live environment.
Observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces
To effectively monitor a serverless application, we rely on three key pillars of observability:
- Logs: Detailed records of events and errors from your functions.
- Metrics: Numerical data points that show performance and usage trends.
- Traces: End-to-end views of requests as they flow through multiple services.
These pillars help you understand what is happening, how well it's performing, and where problems are occurring.
All lessons in this course
- Designing a Serverless Microservice
- Implementing API & Business Logic
- Testing and Monitoring Production
- Securing and Scaling the Production API