Datadog automatically surfaces actionable insights into your Lambda functions

Serverless platforms like AWS Lambda have revolutionized application development by eliminating the need to manage infrastructure resources. However, serverless architecture presents new challenges in monitoring and troubleshooting applications. Datadog has introduced automatically-generated insights to provide deeper visibility into the health and performance of your functions. These insights help identify issues such as high memory usage, cold starts, or over-provisioned memory, enabling developers to quickly resolve problems and optimize resource allocation. Additionally, Datadog now displays error flags for Lambda functions, allowing users to drill down into individual function invocations for more granular troubleshooting. By tying functions to their associated traces and logs, Datadog makes it easier to gain context around each function's invocation and improve overall application performance.