


Datadog’s Lambda Layer ties together Lambda traces from AWS X-Ray and APM traces from hosts and containers, allowing you to get end-to-end visibility into requests as they travel across any type of infrastructure-whether they access Lambda functions, containers, hosts, or any combination thereof. So, we developed the Datadog Lambda Layer, which provides a real-time view into custom metrics from your serverless functions-with minimal overhead.Īnother theme is that serverless applications rarely exist in isolation-they’re usually part of a larger application or group of microservices. First, performance matters-adding latency to applications is a non-starter. When it comes to monitoring, the “why” stays the same, but the “what” and “how” differ.įrom working with our customers, we’ve noticed several common requirements for serverless monitoring. But serverless environments are fundamentally different than those running on cloud-native infrastructure or on-prem-there is no place to run a monitoring agent, and you get billed only when your application runs. Serverless, the concept, centers around the idea of solving business problems, while letting a cloud provider manage the underlying infrastructure (containers, scaling groups, orchestration, etc.).
