How to Effortlessly Monitor Serverless Applications with CloudWatch — Part One

<p>In this two-post series, you will learn to monitor serverless services with CloudWatch by building dashboards, widgets and alarms with AWS CDK.</p> <p><strong>In this post, you will learn what it means to monitor a serverless service, why it is essential, and how to build CloudWatch dashboards to monitor your serverless service with widgets. The widgets display information from CloudWatch logs, metrics, custom metrics, and define CloudWatch alarms as part of a proactive approach.</strong></p> <p>In the second part of the series, we will use AWS CDK to monitor a sample serverless service and build the dashboards presented in the first post in the series.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*XPgwbCzO5ZpTN43M.png" style="height:175px; width:700px" /></p> <p><a href="https://www.ranthebuilder.cloud/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ranthebuilder.cloud/</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ranthebuilder"><img alt="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ranthebuilder" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:202/0*TGJVCRBN_Wss_aF2.png" style="height:52px; width:202px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ranthebuilder" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ranthebuilder</a></p> <p><strong>This blog post was originally published on my website,</strong></p> <p><a href="https://isenberg-ran.medium.com/how-to-effortlessly-monitor-serverless-applications-with-cloudwatch-part-one-910617881417"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>