Example telemetry event

Each invocation of a Lambda function that has Lambda Insights enabled writes a single log event to the /aws/lambda-insights log group. Each log event contains metrics in embedded metric format. For more information about embedded metric format, see Ingest high-cardinality logs to generate metrics with CloudWatch embedded metric format.

To analyze these log events, you can use the following methods:

• The Lambda Insights section of the CloudWatch console, as explained in Viewing your Lambda Insights metrics.

• Log event queries using CloudWatch Logs Insights. For more information, see Analyzing Log Data with CloudWatch Logs Insights.

• Metrics collected in the LambdaInsights namespace, which you graph by using CloudWatch metrics.

The following is an example of a Lambda Insights log event with embedded metric format.

{
    "_aws": {
        "Timestamp": 1605034324256,
        "CloudWatchMetrics": [
            {
                "Namespace": "LambdaInsights",
                "Dimensions": [
                    [ "function_name" ],
                    [ "function_name", "version" ]
                ],
                "Metrics": [
                    { "Name": "memory_utilization", "Unit": "Percent" },
                    { "Name": "total_memory", "Unit": "Megabytes" },
                    { "Name": "used_memory_max", "Unit": "Megabytes" },
                    { "Name": "cpu_total_time", "Unit": "Milliseconds" },
                    { "Name": "tx_bytes", "Unit": "Bytes" },
                    { "Name": "rx_bytes", "Unit": "Bytes" },
                    { "Name": "total_network", "Unit": "Bytes" },
                    { "Name": "init_duration", "Unit": "Milliseconds" }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "LambdaInsights": {
            "ShareTelemetry": true
        }
    },
    "event_type": "performance",
    "function_name": "cpu-intensive",
    "version": "Blue",
    "request_id": "12345678-8bcc-42f7-b1de-123456789012",
    "trace_id": "1-5faae118-12345678901234567890",
    "duration": 45191,
    "billed_duration": 45200,
    "billed_mb_ms": 11571200,
    "cold_start": true,
    "init_duration": 130,
    "tmp_free": 538329088,
    "tmp_max": 551346176,
    "threads_max": 11,
    "used_memory_max": 63,
    "total_memory": 256,
    "memory_utilization": 24,
    "cpu_user_time": 6640,
    "cpu_system_time": 50,
    "cpu_total_time": 6690,
    "fd_use": 416,
    "fd_max": 32642,
    "tx_bytes": 4434,
    "rx_bytes": 6911,
    "timeout": true,
    "shutdown_reason": "Timeout",
    "total_network": 11345,
    "agent_version": "1.0.72.0",
    "agent_memory_avg": 10,
    "agent_memory_max": 10
}