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AWS lambda metricset

Serverless

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Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

AWS Lambda monitors functions and sends metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics include total invocations, errors, duration, throttles, dead-letter queue errors, and iterator age for stream-based invocations.

AWS Permissions

Some specific AWS permissions are required for IAM user to collect AWS EBS metrics.

Text 
ec2:DescribeRegions
cloudwatch:GetMetricData
cloudwatch:ListMetrics
tag:getResources
sts:GetCallerIdentity
iam:ListAccountAliases

Dashboard

The aws lambda metricset comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

metricbeat aws lambda overview

Configuration example

YAML 
- module: aws
  period: 300s
  metricsets:
    - lambda
  # This module uses the aws cloudwatch metricset, all
  # the options for this metricset are also available here.

Metrics

Please see more details for each metric in lambda-cloudwatch-metric.

Metric Name Statistic Method
Invocations Average
Errors Average
DeadLetterErrors Average
DestinationDeliveryFailures Average
Duration Average
Throttles Average
IteratorAge Average
ConcurrentExecutions Average
UnreservedConcurrentExecutions Average
ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions Maximum
ProvisionedConcurrencyInvocations Sum
ProvisionedConcurrencySpilloverInvocations Sum
ProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization Maximum

This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.

Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

JSON 
{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "aws": {
        "cloudwatch": {
            "namespace": "AWS/Lambda"
        },
        "dimensions": {
            "FunctionName": "ec2-owner-tagger-serverless",
            "Resource": "ec2-owner-tagger-serverless"
        },
        "lambda": {
            "metrics": {
                "Duration": {
                    "avg": 8218.073333333334
                },
                "Errors": {
                    "avg": 1
                },
                "Invocations": {
                    "avg": 1
                },
                "Throttles": {
                    "avg": 0
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "627959692251",
            "name": "elastic-test"
        },
        "provider": "aws",
        "region": "us-west-2"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "aws.lambda",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "aws"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "lambda",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "aws"
    }
}