AWS services have faced many outages in the past and the impact of these outages is well known in the tech world. Multiple AWS services are affected during such scenarios, which drastically impact customers and businesses. When business-critical applications are hosted on AWS, it becomes necessary for businesses to adopt fool-proof methods to avoid outages. An outage can be a wake-up call for enterprises to create business continuity plans and implement a solution to monitor AWS health.

The Lambda Telemetry API empowers users to integrate monitoring and observability tools like Site24x7 with their Lambda functions. Site24x7 is an AWS-reviewed Lambda Service Ready Program Partner and is announced as a launch partner in AWS Lambda Telemetry API feature release. Customers, AWS partners, and the serverless community can use the Lambda Telemetry API to receive telemetry streams from the Lambda service, including function, extension logs, and metrics coming from the Lambda platform.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes famously said, "You see, but you do not observe." Collecting application logs exhaustively and interpreting them to support business objectives are two different things. Application logs, also called app logs, event logs, and audit trails, are automatically generated records of computational events in IT environments.