Observability and SLIC Watch
summary
Automates CloudWatch dashboard and alarm creation for serverless stacks by parsing the CloudFormation JSON produced by Serverless Framework or AWS SAM and injecting dashboard and alarm resources at deploy time, so observability exists from day one without hand‑writing IaC for every Lambda. Defaults include golden‑signal metrics and throttling alarms, thresholds are configurable, and alerts publish to an SNS topic for integration with AWS Chatbot, Opsgenie, PagerDuty. Open source repo and config options available.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (19)
- 0:00intro
- 0:21preface
- 1:27hi! i'm diren
- 2:29check out our podcast
- 3:35observability in the cloud
- 4:31aws native o11y = cloudwatch
- 4:50cloudwatch out of the box
- 5:32setting up dashboards and alarms in cloudwatch
- 6:40best practices
- 7:204 golden signals
- 8:03cloudformation for cloudwatch alarms
- 8:38can we automate this?
- 9:37introducing slic watch
- 10:12how slic watch works
- 11:30configuration
- 12:02before slic watch
- 12:17after slic watch...
- 12:57AWS Chatbot, Opsgenie, PagerDuty
- 13:28wrapping up
related talks
39mObservability in DevOps
41mLive Coding on Observability for Serverless
43mObservability for Serverless
49mMonitoring serverless applications on AWS: the monitoring monster becomes your friend.
20mDesigning the Right Observability Stack in AWS Cloud
34mObservability in Serverless Application
24mObservability with AWS
36mObserving all the Serverless Things