Serverless-plugin-cloudwatch NPM

serverless-plugin-cloudwatch

Serverless plugin for setting up AWS CloudWatch dashboards with widgets (only from type 'metric') for configured metrics.

v0.1.10: it's still in development, not ready to use right now :)

Installation

Install via npm in the root of your Serverless service:

npm install serverless-plugin-cloudwatch

Add the plugin to the plugins array of your Serverless service in serverless.yml:

plugins:
  - serverless-plugin-cloudwatch

Usage

There will be only one dashboard per deployment stage. A dashboard is a customizable home page in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your AWS resources in a single view. That's why there will be only one dashboard per deployment.

Following AWS Services are currently supported:

AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB

(AWS S3 and AWS ApiGateway follows soon)

Configuration of the dashboard

The plugin can be configured by adding a property called dashboard to the custom properties of the Serverless service.

Lambda

This is the minimum required configuration:

dashboard:
  lambda:
    enabled: true

Default configuration It will be used, if you only include the minimum required configuration. The default configuration looks like this:

dashboard:
  lambda:
    widgets:
      - name: 'sum of function invocations'
        metrics: 
          - name: 'Invocations'
            stat: 'Sum'
      - name: 'number of invocations that result in a function error',
        metrics: 
          - name: 'Erorrs'
            stat: 'Sum'
    enabled: true

With the default configuration the following widgets will be added to the cloudwatch dashboard:

one widget with the title 'Sum of Invocations' and one metric 'Invocations'.
one widget with the title 'Sum of Errors' and one metric 'Errors' The metrics in a widget will be shown for each of your lambda functions (if lambda dashboards are enabled globally).

You can configure by your own:

the number of widgets by adding a widget to the array
the title (name) of the widget
which metrics (name) should be included in each widget
which statistic (stat) should be used for each metric

To gain maximum control over which functions to be included, you can disable lambda dashboards globally,

dashboard:
  lambda:
    enabled: false

and enable it only for specific functions, by setting the dashboard flag for those functions to true:

functions:
    myFunction:
      handler: some_handler
      dashboard: true

DynamoDB

This is the minimum required configuration:

dashboard:
  dynamoDB:
    enabled: true

Default configuration It will be used, if you only include the minimum required configuration. The default configuration looks like this:

dashboard:
  dynamoDB:
    widgets:
      - name: 'sum of system- and user errors'
        metrics: 
          - name: 'SystemErrors'
            stat: 'Sum'
            dimension: 'TableName'
          - name: 'UserErrors'
            stat: 'Sum'
            dimension: 'TableName'
      - name: 'average time of successful requests',
        metrics: 
          - name: 'SuccessfulRequestLatency'
            stat: 'Average'
            dimension: 'TableName'
    enabled: true

With the default configuration the following widgets will be added to the cloudwatch dashboard:

one widget with the title 'System- and UserErrors' and two metrics 'SystemErrors' and 'UserErrors'.
one widget with the title 'Successful requests' and one metric 'SuccessfulRequestLatency'

The metrics in those widget will be shown for each of your dynamoDB tables.

You can configure by your own:

the number of widgets by adding a widget to the array
the title (name) of the widget
which metrics (name) should be included in each widget
which statistic (stat) should be used for each metric
which dimension (dimension) should be used for each metric (GlobalSecondaryIndexName | Operation | ReceivingRegion | StreamLabel | TableName). See AWS DynamoDB Metrics and Dimensions

S3

This is the minimum required configuration:

dashboard:
  s3:
    enabled: true

Default configuration It will be used, if you only include the minimum required configuration. The default configuration looks like this:

dashboard:
  s3:
    widgets:
      - name: 'daily storage metrics for buckets'
        metrics: 
          - name: 'BucketSizeBytes'
            stat: 'Average'
            dimension: 'BucketName'
          - name: 'UserErrors'
            stat: 'Average'
            dimension: 'BucketName'
      - name: 'total request latency',
        metrics: 
          - name: 'TotalRequestLatency'
            stat: 'Average'
            dimension: 'BucketName'
    enabled: true

ApiGateway

This is the minimum required configuration:

dashboard:
  apiGateway:
    enabled: true

Default configuration It will be used, if you only include the minimum required configuration. The default configuration looks like this:

dashboard:
  apiGateway:
    widgets:
      - name: 'system- and user errors'
        metrics: 
          - name: '5xxErrors'
            stat: 'Sum'
          - name: '4xxErrors'
            stat: 'Sum'
      - name: 'total number of API requests',
        metrics: 
          - name: 'Count'
            stat: 'SampleCount'
    enabled: true