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Monitor your function with CloudWatch metrics

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Monitor your function with CloudWatch metrics

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- [Narrator] So now you tested the function with Postman and you got back the results that you expected. But sometimes, knowing that a function works is not as simple as just making an STP call. And you need to do a little bit more exploration to know if things are working. Monitoring and debugging are crucial part of working with any system. You can understand the state of your system by looking at your logs and your metrics, and in this way, you can detect possible bug, prevent disasters, and validate your assumptions. AWS offers a service called Amazon CloudWatch. CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built on the AWS platform. CloudWatch provides lots of data to monitor your applications. Also, it collects the monitoring data as logs, metrics, and events that you can use. When you work with AWS, many of AWS resources send some metrics automatically to CloudWatch, so you can monitor those services…

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