How do I go about logging and getting metrics for ...
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Ashishkumar Pandey
10/22/2021, 1:09 PMHow do I go about logging and getting metrics for a sst Api and its Functions. SEED gives me some info but I would like to be able to get these metrics via CloudWatch as well. Has anyone attempted anything similar or knows how I could attempt this myself?
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thdxr
10/22/2021, 1:10 PMI use datadog for this. But am curious how to do it within AWS
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Ashishkumar Pandey
10/22/2021, 1:12 PMI see in the cdk docs that it exposes httpApi.metrics function and related functions. I’m going to try that. I’ll try to create a custom cloudwatch dashboard per API construct. Let’s see how that goes.
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Seth Geoghegan
10/22/2021, 1:13 PMon the topic of metrics and logging, I've recently been thinking of how to create dashboards+alarms using IaC when the stack is deployed
Seth Geoghegan
10/22/2021, 1:13 PMI haven't tried just yet, but it seems like a very cool idea to automate the creation of dashboards in Cloudwatch, just like the rest of the infrastructure
Seth Geoghegan
10/22/2021, 1:14 PMAt this point, anything that gets set up in my Cloudwatch dashboard is manually set by me. Which means I have very few dashboards 🙂
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Ashishkumar Pandey
10/22/2021, 1:15 PM@aws-cdk/aws-cloudwatchs
Seth Geoghegan
10/22/2021, 1:16 PMDefinitely! Step 1) how do I do this in the console? Step 2) do it in CDK
Seth Geoghegan
10/22/2021, 1:17 PMActually, it's more like
Step 1) how do I do this in the console? Step 2...N) UGH, WTF, why doesn't this work?!?! Step N+1) do it in CDK
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Ashishkumar Pandey
10/22/2021, 1:18 PMHaha, I’d love to know how to do it in the console, that’d probably help me with the CDK implementation too.
Ashishkumar Pandey
10/22/2021, 1:20 PMThough sometimes the console is just plain stupid too, there are things which are plain simple with the CDK which the console sucks at.