Tools for collecting AWS Lambda data

In this article, the author discusses using Amazon's native tools like CloudWatch and X-Ray to monitor AWS Lambda functions. They explain how these tools collect logs, metrics, and events from Lambda and other AWS services, providing dashboards and alarms for your data. The author also demonstrates how to use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to pull metric data. Additionally, they provide insights on analyzing metrics and logs from Lambda functions using CloudWatch, creating alarms for Lambda metrics, viewing and analyzing traces with X-Ray, and retrieving information about functions with the AWS CLI. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of having a monitoring service that provides visibility into AWS and all other application components in one place, such as Datadog's AWS Lambda integration.