Integrating AWS Lambda with Metrics
Explore how to integrate metrics into AWS Lambda functions using .NET and AWS Powertools. Understand the importance of metrics such as counters, gauges, and durations to monitor application performance, optimize resources, detect issues, and support business and operational insights.
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Metrics in a software application are used to quantitatively measure and track various aspects of the application’s behavior, performance, and usage. Unlike traces and log messages, metrics tend to be fairly primitive data points that may include the following:
Counter: Incremented every time a specific event occurs.
Gauge: Shows the current state of something in the system (such as CPU usage) that can increase or decrease over time.
Duration: Shows how long a process took. ...