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AWS lambda metricset

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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

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

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

Dashboard

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

metricbeat aws lambda overview

Configuration example

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

Metrics

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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:

{
    "@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"
    }
}
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