CloudWatch Metrics and CloudWatch Logs for Lambda Functions
You can use CloudWatch metrics to monitor, in real time, problems with your Lambda@Edge functions. You can also use CloudWatch Logs to get the function logs. There’s no additional charge for metrics or logs.
CloudWatch Metrics
When you create a trigger for a CloudFront event, Lambda begins to send metrics to
CloudWatch
automatically. Metrics are available for all Lambda Regions, but to view metrics
in
the CloudWatch console or get the metric data from the CloudWatch API, you must
use the
US East (N. Virginia) Region (us-east-1). The metric group name is formatted as:
AWS/CloudFront/, where
distribution-IDdistribution-ID is the ID of the CloudFront distribution that
the Lambda@Edge function is associated with.
For more information about CloudWatch metrics, see the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
CloudWatch Logs
Lambda automatically sends function logs to CloudWatch Logs. You can access the log files using the CloudWatch console or the CloudWatch Logs API.
Lambda creates CloudWatch Logs log streams in the AWS Regions closest to the location
where the
function is executed. The log group name is formatted as:
/aws/lambda/us-east-1.function-name, where
function-name is the name that you gave to the function
when you created it.
Lambda@Edge throttles logs based on the request volume and the size of logs.
You must review CloudWatch log files in the correct AWS Region to see your Lambda@Edge function log files. To see the Regions where your Lambda@Edge function is receiving traffic, view graphs of metrics for the function on the CloudFront console. Metrics are displayed for each AWS Region. On the same page, you can choose a Region and then view log files for that Region so that you can investigate issues.
To learn more about how to use CloudWatch Logs with Lambda@Edge functions, see the following:
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For more information about viewing graphs in the Monitoring section of the CloudFront console, see Monitoring CloudFront with Amazon CloudWatch.
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For information about the permissions required to send data to CloudWatch Logs, see Setting IAM Permissions and Roles for Lambda@Edge in the IAM User Guide.
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For information about adding logging to a Lambda function, see Function Logging in Node.js or Function Logging in Python in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.
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For information about CloudWatch Logs quotas (formerly known as limits), see CloudWatch Logs quotas in the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide.
